Output failed test details to stdout using maven surefire

Question

When I run my build using maven 2

mvn clean install 

my tests are run by surefire plug-in. In case test failed I get the following output:

Results :  Failed tests:    test1(com.my.MyClassTest)  Tests run: 3, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] There are test failures.  Please refer to /home/user/myproject/mymodule/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results. 

To get the details about the problem I have to go and check surefire reports folder. Doing this every time my tests fail becomes annoying. Is there any way I can get those details (assert message + exception + stack trace) right here on the stdout ?

Answer 1

I find there's way too much output produced on stdout to be useful. Try leaving the HTML report open in your browser. After running your tests just refresh the page. Have a look at target/surefire-reports/index.html.

To output test results to stdout rather than a file use the following command:

mvn test -Dsurefire.useFile=false 

Or to configure in your pom.xml add the following to your plugins section.

<plugin>   <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>   <version>2.10</version>   <configuration>     <useFile>false</useFile>   </configuration> </plugin>