Is there a way to tell surefire to skip tests in a certain package?

Question

Something like the following.

I would like a way to skip my dao tests in surefire. Trying to avoid overhead of defining Suites.

With CI I\'d like to have on

Answer 1

Let me extend Sean's answer. This is what you set in pom.xml:

  nothing-to-exclude


  
    fast
    
      **/*Dao*.java
    
  


  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-surefire-plugin
  
    
     ${exclude.tests}
    
  

Then in CI you start them like this:

mvn -Pfast test

That's it.