Run a single test method with maven

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BillMan picture BillMan · Dec 9, 2009 · Viewed 326.2k times · Source

I know you can run all the tests in a certain class using:

mvn test -Dtest=classname

But I want to run an individual method and -Dtest=classname.methodname doesn't seem to work.

Answer

Mudit Srivastava picture Mudit Srivastava · May 13, 2011

To run a single test method in Maven, you need to provide the command as:

mvn test -Dtest=TestCircle#xyz test

where TestCircle is the test class name and xyz is the test method.

Wild card characters also work; both in the method name and class name.

If you're testing in a multi-module project, specify the module that the test is in with -pl <module-name>.

For integration tests use it.test=... option instead of test=...:

mvn -pl <module-name> -Dit.test=TestCircle#xyz integration-test

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