You can use the "argLine" configuration option for surefire plugin to add 
JVM args.   Things like "-ea" to enable the assertions that you should be 
testing are also good things to put on that line.

Dan


On Thursday 11 May 2006 16:40, Kris Nuttycombe wrote:
> I have a related question to this: Is it possible to specify the memory
> footprint except using the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable? It would be
> useful to have this as an option for the surefire plugin, at least if
> the tests are running in a separate JVM.
>
> Kris
>
> Dave Hoffer wrote:
> >For some of my projects that use a lot of memory when running unit
> > tests I set MAVEN_OPTS to -Xmx1024m to get all the tests to not throw
> > OutOfMemoryErrors.
> >
> >I now have a maven project that has a dependency on the prior
> > component but I do get an OutOfMemoryError when I run the unit tests.
> >  I have tried to set -Xmx to larger values with no success, as it
> > always fails. The poms are all but identical, why should one fail?
> >
> >Also, in the process viewer I see that when running the tests there
> > are two java processes.  One reports using about 90MB and the other
> > about 64MB.  Why are there two?  These numbers are way lower than the
> > max java heap size specified.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >-dh
> >
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