How to exclude all JUnit4 tests with a given category using Maven surefire?

Question

I intend on annotating some of my JUnit4 tests with an @Category annotation. I would then like to exclude that category of tests from running on my Maven builds.

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Answer 1

You can do this as follows:

Your pom.xml should contain the following setup.

   
       **/TestCircle.java
        **/TestSquare.java
   

If you want regex support just use

    %regex[.*[Cat|Dog].*Test.*]

http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/inclusion-exclusion.html

If you want to use Category annotation, you need to do the following:

@Category(com.myproject.annotations.Exclude)
@Test
public testFoo() {
   ....
}

In your maven configuration, you can have something like this

  com.myproject.annotations.Exclude