[SUREFIRE-1694] Surefire silently skips tests in presence of transitive dependency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.22.2
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Allen Evans
• Created: 09/Sep/19 17:49
• Updated: 28/Apr/20 22:25
• Resolved: 28/Apr/20 22:25

Description

In a multi-module project, one module "functional-tests" contains a test suite that tests the whole application.

Usually, running mvn verify will run the tests in this module.

[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.0:test (default-test) @ functional-tests ---
[WARNING] file.encoding cannot be set as system property, use <argLine>-Dfile.encoding=...</argLine> instead
[INFO]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]  T E S T S
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
...

Recently, I added a dependency (io.vertx:vertx-config-git) to the pom.xml of one of my project's modules "config", and now mvn verify breezes through the functional-tests module without running any of the tests, and without logging anything noteworthy (even with the -X flag)

[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.22.0:test (default-test) @ functional-tests ---
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:copy-dependencies (copy-dependencies) @ functional-tests ---
...

 

After adding a dependency:exclusion tag to the pom.xml of the "config" module that excludes a particular transitive dependency from vertx-config-git (org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit), the tests work as before. Obviously this is not a solution, but it seems to narrow down the problem. 

Is it likely that my issue is caused by the presence of org.eclipse.jgit in my dependency tree? This seems counterintuitive.