Maven, displaying unit test currently running

Question

My company has recently switched to maven, and the transition was very smooth, but there is one this that annoys me. So earlier, in pre-maven era you could see which test is

Answer 1

If you use JUnit, you could use a @Rule for this.

If you only want it to apply to when Maven runs the tests, use a System property to en-/disable the output.

Answer 2

You can configure a listener that will print the currently run test on the console. See the sections Using custom listeners and reporters of the junit maven-surefire-plugin documentation or the testng maven-surefire-plugin documentation

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.19.1</version>
    <configuration>
      <properties>
        <property>
          <name>listener</name>
          <value>com.mycompany.MyResultListener,com.mycompany.MyResultListener2</value>
        </property>
      </properties>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>