Cannot use jacoco JVM args and surefire JVM args together in maven

Question

I am using maven with the jacoco plugin to generate code coverage metrics. I am having some difficulty in configuring the surefire plugin with the java opt

Answer 1

Try using

@{argLine}

instead of

${argLine}

(or surefire.argLine in your case)

It allows surefire to read a property as modified by other plugins instead of reading the one substituted by Maven itself. Then you can set the argLine param to empty in Maven properties:

Which now will not cause any problems. More here: How do I use properties set by other plugins in argLine?