I recently stumbled upon a simple way to parallelize the execute of tests via jUnit by specifying the following in a java project's pom.xml file:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I've discovered that there are 2 test-classes (let's call them "badtestclass1" and "badtestclass2") that keep getting penalized by this parallel execution due to the way the tests in them have been written. Ideally, I would refactor those test-classes to behave better, but in the interim, I was wondering if there's a nifty way to "exclude" these specific classes from being executed in parallel. Basically, is there a way to execute everything else in parallel and then these 2 in sequence (or the other order, doesn't matter). Would something like the following work?
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<excludes>
<excludesFile>badtestclass1</excludesFile>
<excludesFile>badtestclass2</excludesFile>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>