maven surefire: how to print current test being run?

Question

Is there any way to get maven surefire to print the name of every unit test (i.e., test method) it's starting?

Something like:

testFoo: ... passed
testBar: ... failed

Answer 1

In details

package com.example.mavenproject;

import org.junit.runner.Description;
import org.junit.runner.Result;
import org.junit.runner.notification.RunListener;

/**
 * @author Paul Verest
 */
public class PrintOutCurrentTestRunListener extends RunListener {
    @Override
    public void testRunStarted(Description description) throws Exception {
        // TODO all methods return null
        System.out.println("testRunStarted " + description.getClassName() + " " + description.getDisplayName() + " "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testStarted(Description description) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testStarted "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testFinished(Description description) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testFinished "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testRunFinished(Result result) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testRunFinished " + result.toString()
                + " time:"+result.getRunTime()
                +" R"+result.getRunCount()
                +" F"+result.getFailureCount()
                +" I"+result.getIgnoreCount()
                );
    }
}

and in pom.xml

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.12</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<!-- -->
<build>
    <plugins>
        <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.example.mavenproject.PrintOutCurrentTestRunListener</value>
                    </property>
                </properties>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Answer 2

It's a bit of stretch, but you could implement a RunListener and add it to surefire. See how to configure it here.