Maven with Surefire refuses to run single test met

Question

I've been trying to use Maven with the Surefire plugin to run some JUnit unit tests.

Following the instructions provided by Maven and the Surefire folks here: http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/single-test.html

My command for maven is as follows:

mvn clean -Dtest-group=regression -Dtest=TestClass#testMethod test

TestGroup is pulled from an @IfProfileValue statement and has always worked:

@IfProfileValue(name = "test-group", values = {"regression"})

However after I run the command, despite being sure that testClass has a method named testMethod(which would run if I didn't add the #testMethod to the command) my output is as follows:

~/REPOS/app: mvn clean -Dtest-group=regression -Dtest=TestClass#testmethod test

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING]
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for com.app:GuiAuto:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] 'dependencies.dependency.(groupId:artifactId:type:classifier)' must be unique: org.twitter4j:twitter4j-core:jar -> version 2.2.4 vs [3.0,) @ line 127, column 21
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin is missing. @ line 147, column 12
[WARNING]
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
[WARNING]
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
[WARNING]
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building GuiAuto 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ GuiAuto ---
[INFO] Deleting /Users/llaskin/REPOS/app/target
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ GuiAuto ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 92 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile (default-compile) @ GuiAuto ---
[INFO] Compiling 762 source files to /Users/llaskin/REPOS/app/target/classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ GuiAuto ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 3 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ GuiAuto ---
[INFO] Compiling 762 source files to /Users/llaskin/REPOS/app/target/test-classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.17:test (default-test) @ GuiAuto ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /Users/llaskin/REPOS/app/target/surefire-reports
[INFO] parallel='classes', perCoreThreadCount=false, threadCount=5, useUnlimitedThreads=false, threadCountSuites=0, threadCountClasses=0, threadCountMethods=0, parallelOptimized=true

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Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 11.379s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Nov 17 12:27:59 CST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 27M/571M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.17:test (default-test) on project GuiAuto: No tests were executed!  (Set -DfailIfNoTests=false to ignore this error.) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Answer 1

Maybe this is because of the bug SUREFIRE-1028 in Surefire 2.16 and 2.17. This bug is fixed in Surefire 2.18.

Can you please upgrade and tell us whether your problem is fixed with Surefire 2.18 or not.