The release contains a number of bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports, bug fixes, features and improvements. Thank you and keep them coming!
Summarizing new main features and bug fixing, we have introduced + new parser of test patterns, let's call it Test Filter API, related to parameters: test, ex/includes, ex/includesFile; + a feature to interrupting the test-set after exceedded certain number of errors/failures + new Doxia Version + anchoring test class names + shutdown operations + command based communication between in-plugin and forked process + improvements in JUnit and TestNG runners + etc. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.19</version> </plugin> or for failsafe: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.19</version> </plugin> or for surefire-report: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.19</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.19 <h2> Bug </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-856'>SUREFIRE-856</a>] - Running single test in Failsafe using CLI does not override <includes> configuration </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-919'>SUREFIRE-919</a>] - TestNG plugin fails to apply 'verbose' setting from TestNG.xml </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-945'>SUREFIRE-945</a>] - Top of web page is pretty opaque </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-964'>SUREFIRE-964</a>] - TEST-*.xml files generated by Surefire throw validation warnings in Eclipse for no grammer constraints (DTD or XML schema) referenced in the document </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-983'>SUREFIRE-983</a>] - 'Running a Single Test' feature does not work as expected (for testng provider) </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-986'>SUREFIRE-986</a>] - Groovy power assert incorrect indentation </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1024'>SUREFIRE-1024</a>] - "verify" goal ignores "dependenciesToScan" parameter when checking tests existence </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1037'>SUREFIRE-1037</a>] - Elapsed time is reported incorrectly for tests run in parallel </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1067'>SUREFIRE-1067</a>] - Nested causes conflated with wrapper exception </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1084'>SUREFIRE-1084</a>] - Surefire-report stack traces appear on a single line. </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1125'>SUREFIRE-1125</a>] - Running multiple methods via the `test` property does not work in junit47 provider </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1126'>SUREFIRE-1126</a>] - Discrepancy between test exclusion docs and plugin behavior </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1127'>SUREFIRE-1127</a>] - Failsafe project does not fail in verify phase when a test case object errors during initialization </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1128'>SUREFIRE-1128</a>] - Fix mvn 2.2.1 build process https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/maven-surefire-mvn-2.2.1 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1129'>SUREFIRE-1129</a>] - JDK 5 should be the min requirements in surefire project </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1131'>SUREFIRE-1131</a>] - Remove obsolete maven profiles </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1133'>SUREFIRE-1133</a>] - Surefire Windows Build fails on OOM </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1136'>SUREFIRE-1136</a>] - Current working directory propagation in forked mode </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1137'>SUREFIRE-1137</a>] - Problem with Umlauts in stdout </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1138'>SUREFIRE-1138</a>] - Enabling reuseForks runs all tests in series on just one fork </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1144'>SUREFIRE-1144</a>] - Time for testsuite on commandline does not suit with the time value given in the report file </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1146'>SUREFIRE-1146</a>] - rerunFailingTestsCount not working with Parameterized test </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1148'>SUREFIRE-1148</a>] - JUnit Method Filter (**/Class#method) should use same syntax as "test" parameter </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1150'>SUREFIRE-1150</a>] - The surefire and failsafe plugin should not be dependent on JCIP </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1151'>SUREFIRE-1151</a>] - surefire/failsafe home pages should link to apache.org for issues </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1152'>SUREFIRE-1152</a>] - Option rerunFailingTestsCount silently fails with test suites </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1154'>SUREFIRE-1154</a>] - TestNG and JUnit should be able to run its own tests </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1158'>SUREFIRE-1158</a>] - Remove startup logs of the plugin and TestNG configurator </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1159'>SUREFIRE-1159</a>] - JUnit47 runner failing in parallel mode </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1160'>SUREFIRE-1160</a>] - -DTest=... should be independent of execustion section </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1161'>SUREFIRE-1161</a>] - Executing selected (multiple) tests of same class gives Exception </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1167'>SUREFIRE-1167</a>] - Upgrade DOXIA to Version 1.6 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1173'>SUREFIRE-1173</a>] - Link to plugin's web site is reported as redirected by maven linkcheck plugin. </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1177'>SUREFIRE-1177</a>] - TestNG "suitethreadpoolsize" parameter can not be set by Maven Surefire </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1179'>SUREFIRE-1179</a>] - TestNG parallel options seem to not be honored </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1180'>SUREFIRE-1180</a>] - Does not overrides include/exclude using -Dtest property </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1181'>SUREFIRE-1181</a>] - "forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds" does not kill forked JVM although interrupted build </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1182'>SUREFIRE-1182</a>] - Surefire 2.19 rc hangs when building maven core </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1184'>SUREFIRE-1184</a>] - Documentation for TestNG parameter "testnames" - see SUREFIRE-845 </li> </ul> <h2> Improvement </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-574'>SUREFIRE-574</a>] - additionalClasspathElements-feature improved </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-597'>SUREFIRE-597</a>] - Surefire report creation fails on processing absent optional JUnit xml attributes </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-622'>SUREFIRE-622</a>] - The TestNG command line option '-testrunfactory' should be supported. </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-745'>SUREFIRE-745</a>] - -Dtest supports multiple test classes but not multiple test methods </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-826'>SUREFIRE-826</a>] - maven-surefire-plugin does not add its own plugin dependencies to the classpath </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-850'>SUREFIRE-850</a>] - Document how to run TestNG & JUnit 4 tests </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-855'>SUREFIRE-855</a>] - Allow failsafe to use actual jar file instead of target/classes </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1065'>SUREFIRE-1065</a>] - Allow includesFile and excludesFile parameters to be set from the commandline </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1155'>SUREFIRE-1155</a>] - REFACTORING for Java 5 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1162'>SUREFIRE-1162</a>] - Upgrade maven-shared-utils to Version 0.8 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1163'>SUREFIRE-1163</a>] - Upgrade maven-verifier to Version 1.6 </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1174'>SUREFIRE-1174</a>] - Concurrent RunListeners should be annotated @ThreadSafe </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1178'>SUREFIRE-1178</a>] - Upgrade maven-shared-utils to Version 0.9 </li> </ul> <h2> New Feature </h2> <ul> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-131'>SUREFIRE-131</a>] - Excluding tests with command line pattern </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-524'>SUREFIRE-524</a>] - Forked Process not terminated if maven process aborted. Provide means to clean up. </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-580'>SUREFIRE-580</a>] - Allow "fail fast" or stop running on first failure </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1134'>SUREFIRE-1134</a>] - Take list of tests from file (-Dtest has upper limits for comma-separated list of tests) </li> <li>[<a href='https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1140'>SUREFIRE-1140</a>] - Support anchoring all test case names </li> </ul> Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
