javamavenmaven-surefire-plugin

Skip single test with maven with command line options

I would like to skip a single test (e.g. com.example.MyTest) when building a project with Maven from the command line.

I'm aware of similar questions like this one, but they all require either modification of source code or pom.xml. I would like to do without modifications. How can I exclude a test using command line options only?

What I've tried so far after reading some documentation is

mvn clean install -Dtest="*,!com.example.MyTest"

but the test is still not skipped. I'm using surefire plugin version 2.19 and JUnit 4.11.

Solution

  • It turns out that (at least in Surefire 2.19), the test pattern doesn't work with fully qualified class names. So the right solution is 

    mvn clean install -Dtest="*,!MyTest"

    i.e. without the package path.

    In Surefire 2.19.1, it should be possible to use fully qualified names. In versions older than 2.19, neither seems to work.