Strategy for debugging surefire “The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?”

Question

I am working on a rather complex java project with many dependencies and many unit tests.

I am using java 1.6.0_65 on mac (mavericks) with maven 3.0.5 with maven-sur

Answer 1

In my case the configuration forkedProcessExitTimeoutInSeconds for the maven-surefire-plugin helps. The default value are since maven-surefire-plugin:2.20.1 30 seconds. My project gots very time consuming test and so the forked JVM chrashes. Configure the plugin in the pom with the following property solves the problem.

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