In IntelliJ IDEA when I normally run a unit test I got a dialog that shows me test progress and lets me easily go through the test results. However, I\'m using maven for my
I recently figured out as close as I think I'll be able to get to an answer. The tests themselves have to be run from intellij-idea. But I can still configure IntelliJ IDEA to run the build via maven first.

As you can see in the Red Highlighted Box I've selected a saved maven build configuration for it to run. So as not to duplicate tests, and keep things simple its a simple mvn package -DskipTests type build. I'm still curious if the tests are any different having IntelliJ IDEA run them vs the maven-surefire-plugin but now I at least know that the build process is the same.