Run a single test method with maven

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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.

I would be interested in knowing how to do this, too. However, if I found myself doing it quite often, I think that test might be a candidate to be split out into its own class, so you can use the `mvn test -Dtest=classname` syntax. — John Paulett, Dec 09 '09 at 13:57
Do you want to know how to do it via command line only?? Or using an IDE (eclipse) would work for you? — Diego Dias, Dec 09 '09 at 14:04
I was looking at a command line. I think the junit eclipse plugin will allow you to do this. — BillMan, Dec 09 '09 at 14:21
I did this for Maven 1. As I recalled, it involved making changes to JUnit, which is responsible for introspecting the test class. — kdgregory, Dec 11 '09 at 13:49

score 775 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 29 '19 at 16:54

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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

edited Jan 29 '19 at 16:54

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answered May 13 '11 at 06:53

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I wish there was a way to merge answers... this is correct, but the link its taken from is in another post: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/single-test.html – cjstehno Jun 28 '11 at 11:54
I was wondering if the class name should be a fully qualified class name, with the package name, and the answer is, that while a fully qualified name works, also only the class name works, Maven looks the class up for you. I guess that if the name is ambiguous, it will emit an error. – stivlo Nov 04 '11 at 02:57
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Fixed the "No Tests Were Executed" error by downgrading to surefire 2.9 – qwerty Jul 18 '12 at 07:58
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So wait, the "solution" is to revert to an old version? What about those of us who actually require more recent versions of surefire? – Adam Parkin Feb 28 '13 at 19:27
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I fixed "No Tests Were Executed!" by upgrading to 2.14: – alfonx Mar 17 '13 at 22:40
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If you're testing in a multi-module project, you also need to specify the module that the test is in with `-pl `. – Jon Oct 15 '13 at 07:06
I had the same problem for testng with surefire 2.9, but version 2.14 and current last 2.17 work. – jan May 14 '14 at 12:28
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Use `-DfailIfNoTests=false` to skip projects without test. `No Tests Were Executed` happens when you try to run test from root project and there is modules without tests at all. – Cherry Aug 18 '14 at 03:46
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I got `No Tests Were Executed !` too, because i have `jUnit` and `TestNg` together in maven project dependencies. Removing `TestNg` or changing `@Test` annotation to `@org.testng.annotations.Test` solved problem for me. – marioosh Nov 06 '15 at 11:42
When running integration tests the phase has to be "integration-test" instead of "test". – diegomtassis Jun 14 '16 at 08:28
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This command works !! `mvn "-DTest=JoinTeamTestCases#validateJoinTeam" test` Note that "-DTest" starts with UPPER CASE 'T'. – vikas Aug 07 '17 at 11:10
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I just spent 45min with no success until I realized I was missing the "Test" at the end of my test class name. – xdhmoore Jan 13 '18 at 01:33
Dont forget the **:** in front of the module name ... `mvn -pl : -Dtest=TestCircle#xyz test` – JohnK Jul 22 '19 at 09:43
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For the first example, I found the `test` hanging off the end of the command to be unnecessary – Jordan Morris May 04 '20 at 04:34

score 30 · Answer 2 · edited May 28 '18 at 13:33

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There is an issue with surefire 2.12. This is what happen to me changing maven-surefire-plugin from 2.12 to 2.11:

mvn test -Dtest=DesignRulesTest

Result:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:test (default-test) on project pmd: No tests were executed!
mvn test -Dtest=DesignRulesTest

Result: [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.11:test (default-test) @ pmd --- ... Running net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.java.rule.design.DesignRulesTest Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 4, Time elapsed: 4.009 sec

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answered Oct 14 '12 at 22:10

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Works again in 2.12.1 or later. – yurez Nov 15 '12 at 14:18
Fixed "No Tests Were Executed!" by upgrading to 2.14 – alfonx Mar 17 '13 at 22:41
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If you use `@Category(IntegrationTest.class)`, use `-Dit.test=ClassName`, otherwise you will get `No tests were executed!` even with the latest plugin versions. – uvsmtid Dec 22 '18 at 10:20

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 23:13

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What I do with my TestNG, (sorry, JUnit doesn't support this) test cases is I can assign a group to the test I want to run

@Test(groups="broken")

And then simply run 'mvn -Dgroups=broken'.

answered Dec 09 '09 at 23:13

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This is a good answer. In my case, the test tried to run but some Seam components weren't set up properly so it looks like this is skipping some portion of the setup code as well. – Chris Williams Aug 11 '10 at 20:32
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Correct. You need to either put groups=broken in in your @BeforeMethod, or do @BeforeMethod(alwaysRun=true) – tunaranch Aug 12 '10 at 05:36
Please let me know what is group here, since I am getting compilation issue. – Paramesh Korrakuti Jan 23 '15 at 13:37

score 14 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 28 '13 at 14:46

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Running a set of methods in a Single Test Class With version 2.7.3, you can run only n tests in a single Test Class.

NOTE : it's supported for junit 4.x and TestNG.

You must use the following syntax

mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#mytest test

You can use patterns too

mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#test* test

As of surefire 2.12.1, you can select multiple methods (JUnit4X only at this time, patches welcome)

mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#testOne+testTwo test

Check this link about single tests

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answered Feb 28 '13 at 14:22

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In my case i had to double quote the TestClass#test name like mvn -Dtest="TestCircle#myTest" test – Pratik Khadloya Jun 27 '14 at 23:12
@PratikKhadloya Any idea how it works for dependent tests? Say, I have test1(), test2(), test3() methods in TestClass and test2 depends on test1. How can I run just test2()? – Ziska Oct 28 '14 at 20:05
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I think if you have dependencies amongst your tests, you are doing something wrong. Each test should be independent of other tests. You need to remove the coupling between them. – Pratik Khadloya Oct 29 '14 at 18:41

score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 02 '18 at 03:10

You can run specific test class(es) and method(s) using the following syntax:

full package : mvn test -Dtest="com.oracle.tests.**"

all method in a class : mvn test -Dtest=CLASS_NAME1

single method from single class :mvn test -Dtest=CLASS_NAME1#METHOD_NAME1

multiple method from multiple class : mvn test -Dtest=CLASS_NAME1#METHOD_NAME1,CLASS_NAME2#METHOD_NAME2

score 8 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 07 '17 at 11:14

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This command works !! mvn "-DTest=JoinTeamTestCases#validateJoinTeam" test Note that "-DTest" starts with UPPER CASE 'T'.

answered Aug 07 '17 at 11:14

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Does *not* work with SureFire 2.18.x; it just runs all tests. – Janaka Bandara Jul 17 '18 at 01:47

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 13 '11 at 17:27

The test parameter mentioned by tobrien allows you to specify a method using a # before the method name. This should work for JUnit and TestNG. I've never tried it, just read it on the Surefire Plugin page:

Specify this parameter to run individual tests by file name, overriding the includes/excludes parameters. Each pattern you specify here will be used to create an include pattern formatted like **/${test}.java, so you can just type "-Dtest=MyTest" to run a single test called "foo/MyTest.java". This parameter overrides the includes/excludes parameters, and the TestNG suiteXmlFiles parameter. since 2.7.3 You can execute a limited number of method in the test with adding #myMethod or #my*ethod. Si type "-Dtest=MyTest#myMethod" supported for junit 4.x and testNg

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 17 '20 at 12:54

I tried several solutions provided in this thread, however they were not working for module which depends on a different one. In that case I had to run mvn from the root-module with additional parameters: -am (--also-make), which tells maven to built modules which your test module depends on and -DfailIfNoTests=false, otherwise "No tests were executed!" error appears.

mvn test -pl B -Dtest=MyTestClass#myTest -am -DfailIfNoTests=false

pom.xml section in root:

<modules>
    <module>A</module>
    <module>B</module>
<modules>

B depends on A.

works for me, thanks! – Gerardo Tarragona May 24 '21 at 17:42 — Gerardo Tarragona, May 24 '21 at 17:42

score 4 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 16:12

Run a single test method from a test class.

mvn test -Dtest=Test1#methodname

Other related use-cases

mvn test // Run all the unit test classes
mvn test -Dtest=Test1 // Run a single test class
mvn test -Dtest=Test1,Test2 // Run multiple test classes
mvn test -Dtest=Test1#testFoo* // Run all test methods that match pattern 'testFoo*' from a test class.
mvn test -Dtest=Test1#testFoo*+testBar* // Run all test methods match pattern 'testFoo*' and 'testBar*' from a test class.

score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 10 '09 at 14:10

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New versions of JUnit contains the Categories runner: http://kentbeck.github.com/junit/doc/ReleaseNotes4.8.html

But releasing procedure of JUnit is not maven based, so maven users have to put it manually to their repositories.

answered Dec 10 '09 at 14:10

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Nice. But I don't see how this answers the question. – Pascal Thivent Dec 10 '09 at 14:33
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Subj is supported from 2.7.3 version of maven-surefire-plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/single-test.html – Andriy Plokhotnyuk Apr 04 '11 at 00:36

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 08 '18 at 01:45

As of surefire plugin version 2.22.1 (possibly earlier) you can run single test using testnames property when using testng.xml

Given a following testng.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite">
    <test name="all-tests">
        <classes>
            <class name="server.Atest"/>
            <class name="server.Btest"/>
            <class name="server.Ctest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
    <test name="run-A-test">
        <classes>
            <class name="server.Atest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
    <test name="run-B-test">
        <classes>
            <class name="server.Btest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
    <test name="run-C-test">
        <classes>
            <class name="server.Ctest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>

with the pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    [...]
    <properties>
        <selectedTests>all-tests</selectedTests>
    </properties>
    [...]
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.22.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <suiteXmlFiles>
                    <file>src/test/resources/testng.xml</file>
                </suiteXmlFiles>
                <properties>
                    <property>
                        <name>testnames</name>
                        <value>${selectedTests}</value>
                    </property>
                </properties>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
    [...]
</project>

From command line

mvn clean test -DselectedTests=run-B-test

Further reading - Maven surefire plugin using testng

score -5 · Answer 12 · edited Mar 27 '13 at 14:23

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You can run a single test class, but not a single method within a test class. You use the simple name of the class not the fully-qualified name of the class. So, if you have a test in "org.sonatype.test.MyTest" and that is the only test you want to run, your command line would look like this:

mvn test -Dtest=MyTest

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I tested solution described on previous comments in a single module project, so what this comment is saying is not true. – tonio May 11 '15 at 18:49
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It may have been true in 2009 when originally answered. – flurdy Aug 24 '17 at 15:09

score -8 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 09 '09 at 15:14

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To my knowledge, the surefire plugin doesn't provide any way to do this. But feel free to open an issue :)

answered Dec 09 '09 at 15:14

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Run a single test method with maven

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Run a single test method from a test class.

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