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

In my case the reason was a bug in the code. The test relied on a certain order of elements in a HashSet, which turned out to be different when run either in Eclipse or in Maven Surefire.