Running junit tests in parallel in a Maven build?

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krosenvold picture krosenvold · Jan 8, 2009 · Viewed 78k times · Source

I'm using JUnit 4.4 and Maven and I have a large number of long-running integration tests.

When it comes to parallelizing test suites there are a few solutions that allow me to run each test method in a single test-class in parallel. But all of these require that I change the tests in one way or another.

I really think it would be a much cleaner solution to run X different test classes in X threads in parallel. I have hundreds of tests so I don't really care about threading individual test-classes.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer

Oleksandr picture Oleksandr · Feb 29, 2012

Use maven plugin:

<build>
    <plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.7.1</version>
        <configuration>
            <parallel>classes</parallel>
            <threadCount>5</threadCount>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

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