Is there a way to "fail fast" for junit with the maven surefire plugin?

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Eliza Brock Marcum picture Eliza Brock Marcum · Dec 17, 2009 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I'm currently working on a java project using maven. We use the maven surefire plugin to run our junit suite as part of the build process.

Our test suite is rapidly growing, in both coverage and execution time. The execution time is very frustrating and time consuming when you end up waiting ten minutes to find out that a test failed in the first minute of testing.

I would like to find a way to make the build process fail upon the first error/failure in the test suite. I know that this is possible for other build tools, but I have been unable to find a way to do this with maven surefire.

I know that there is an unresolved ticket for this functionality in the surefire jira, but I'm hoping that there is an existing solution out there for this.

Answer

Captain Man picture Captain Man · Sep 17, 2015

As of September 6th 2015 it appears there is, -Dsurefire.skipAfterFailureCount=1.

As of October 19th 2015 version 2.19 has been released.

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