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

Sure, no problem:

   org.apache.maven.plugins
   maven-surefire-plugin
   2.6
   
      
         
         **/*Dao*.java
         
         **/dao/*.java
      
   

Reference:

• Maven Surefire Plugin > Inclusions and Exclusions of Tests

(The excludes can not be configured via command line, so if you want to turn this behavior on conditionally, you will have to define a profile and activate that on the command line)