Is there a way to tell surefire to skip tests in a certain package?

Question

Something like the following.

I would like a way to skip my dao tests in surefire. Trying to avoid overhead of defining Suites.

With CI I'd like to have one nightly that runs all tests and another 5 minute poll of SCM that runs only 'fast' tests.

mvn -DskipPattern=**.dao.** test 

Answer 1

Let me extend Sean's answer. This is what you set in pom.xml:

<properties>   <exclude.tests>nothing-to-exclude</exclude.tests> </properties> <profiles>   <profile>     <id>fast</id>     <properties>       <exclude.tests>**/*Dao*.java</exclude.tests>     </properties>   </profile> </profiles> <plugin>   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>   <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>   <configuration>     <excludes>      <exclude>${exclude.tests}</exclude>     </excludes>   </configuration> </plugin> 

Then in CI you start them like this:

mvn -Pfast test 

That's it.

Answer 2

Sure, no problem:

<plugin>    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>    <version>2.6</version>    <configuration>       <excludes>          <!-- classes that include the name Dao -->          <exclude>**/*Dao*.java</exclude>          <!-- classes in a package whose last segment is named dao -->          <exclude>**/dao/*.java</exclude>       </excludes>    </configuration> </plugin> 

Reference:

• Maven Surefire Plugin > Inclusions and Exclusions of Tests

(The excludes can not be configured via command line, so if you want to turn this behavior on conditionally, you will have to define a profile and activate that on the command line)