Maven not showing which tests failed in command prompt

Question

When I run a mvn test from the command prompt it doesn't show which tests failed at the end of the build. Shouldn't the tests that failed be listed under Tests in error?? I'm using windows xp :( and I've tried in the command prompt and console2.

Results :

Tests in error:

Tests run: 402, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 2

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] There are test failures.

Please refer to C:\code\btlims\java\chippingmanager\chipping-manager-client\target\surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 minutes 27 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Mar 29 09:19:58 CDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 24M/43M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

I have encountered this issue using Maven 3.0.3 and version 2.8 of the maven-surefire-plugin. In the surefire plugin section of your pom.xml, ensure that the printSummary option is set to true.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.8</version>
            <configuration>
                <printSummary>true</printSummary>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Once this option is set, you should see the full list of test results (including failures) in your command-line output. According to the Surefire documentation, tests cases that fail should still be listed when this option is set to false but that does not appear to be the case on my setup.