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 suddenly experienced this error, and the solution for me was to disable to run tests in parallel.

Your milage may vary, since I could lower number of failing tests by configuring surefire to run parallel tests by ´classes´.:

            
                maven-surefire-plugin
                2.7.2
                
                    classes
                    10
                
            

As I wrote first, this was not enough for my test suite, so I completely disabled parallel by removing the section.