How to run JUnit tests by category in Maven?

Question

Using JUnit 4.8 and the new @Category annotations, is there a way to choose a subset of categories to run with Maven\'s Surefire plugin?

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Answer 1

You can use

mvn test -Dgroups="com.myapp.FastTests, com.myapp.SlowTests"

But ensure that you configure properly the maven surefire plugin

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-surefire-plugin
  2.11
  
    
      org.apache.maven.surefire
      surefire-junit47
      2.12.2
    
  

See docs in: https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/junit.html