mvn test fails because of Surefire JDK version?

Question

I am trying to run mvn test on my project. The project itself compiles and installs but man test fails with the following output:

[ERROR] Failed to execute g         


        

Answer 1

It seems I hadn't updated my Maven in Eclipse (right click project -> Maven -> Update Project...) or chosen JDK 8 in Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler options. With these two done everything works perfectly again :)