Making Maven run all tests, even when some fail

Question

I have a project with several modules. When all tests pass, Maven test runs them all.

When tests fail in the first module, maven will not continue to the next project. I have testFailureIgnore set to true in Surefire settings, but it doesn't help.

How do I make maven run all tests?

Answer 1

From the documentation:

-fae,--fail-at-end Only fail the build afterwards; allow all non-impacted builds to continue

-fn,--fail-never NEVER fail the build, regardless of project result

So if you are testing one module than you are safe using -fae.

Otherwise, if you have multiple modules, and if you want all of them tested (even the ones that depend on the failing tests module), you should run mvn clean install -fn.
-fae will continue with the module that has a failing test (will run all other tests), but all modules that depend on it will be skipped.

Answer 2

I just found the "-fae" parameter, which causes Maven to run all tests and not stop on failure.

Answer 3

Can you test with surefire 2.6 and either configure surefire with testFailureIgnore=true. Or on the command line:

mvn install -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true

Answer 4

Try to add the following configuration for surefire plugin in your pom.xml of root project:

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>

Answer 5

A quick answer:

mvn -fn test

Works with nested project builds.