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

It is possible to exclude tests using the commandline; using ! to exclude.

Note: I'm not sure but possibly needs 2.19.1 or later version of surefire to work.

Examples:

This will not run TestHCatLoaderEncryption

mvn install '-Dtest=!TestHCatLoaderEncryption'

Exclude a package:

mvn install '-Dtest=!org.apache.hadoop.**'

This can be combined with positive filters as well. The following will run 0 tests:

mvn install '-Dtest=Test*CatLoaderEncryption,!TestHCatLoaderEncryption'

See the Maven Surefire docs.