Do not run a category of slow JUnit tests by default in Maven and every IDE (Eclipse, IntelliJ, …) without an explicit TestSuite

Question

I have a set of really slow tests, which take a week to run. (They literally run some code non-stop for about a week).

Naturally, no developer (or even the default build

Answer 1

Why not making Integration test out of slow running test. Using the maven-failsafe-plugin which would handle such cases via different naming conventions. For example *IT.java which are Themen long runnin test. Furthermore i would suggest to put the activation into a profilr so everyone can control to run those test or not which should be the default