Disabling Log4J logs during maven test phase

Question

Trace and debug logs can be helpful while doing development in the IDE, but during the build I find those lines quite disturbing, and obfuscating the report printed out by m

Answer 1

As explained by @artbristol (comment on the question) this can be configured in surefire. It can be done in this way in the pom.xml:

        
            maven-surefire-plugin
            2.5
            
                always
                
                    file:${basedir}/etc/log4j-silent.properties
                
            
        

Then, having the file ${basedir}/etc/log4j-silent.properties with following settings does the trick:

log4j.rootLogger=OFF

The log4j gets completely disabled during test runs in maven, and everything works normally in the IDE.

A better solution would be not to have the additional configuration file; but can't find it so far.