JUnit tests pass in Eclipse but fail in Maven Surefire

Question

I have written some JUnit tests using JUnit 4 and spring-test libraries. When I run the tests inside Eclipse then run fine and pass. But when I run them using Maven (during

Answer 1

I had the same problem (JUnit tests failed in Maven Surefire but passed in Eclipse) and managed to solve it by setting forkMode to always in the maven surefire configuration in pom.xml:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-surefire-plugin
    2.12
    
        always
    

Surefire parameters: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html

Edit (January 2014):

As Peter Perháč pointed out, the forkMode parameter is deprecated since Surefire 2.14. Beginning from Surefire 2.14 use this instead:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-surefire-plugin
    2.16
    
        false
        1
    

For more information see Fork Options and Parallel Test Execution