[SUREFIRE-1910] Missleading error message when using -Dtest=....

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.22.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-M6
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Christoph Läubrich
• Created: 27/Apr/21 04:16
• Updated: 11/Oct/22 13:33
• Resolved: 15/May/21 12:03

Description

I run

 mvn clean verify  -Dtest=abc

then I get the following error message:

No tests were executed!  (Set -DfailIfNoTests=false to ignore this error.) 

This is missleading as failIfNoTests is false by default. Actually I have to set surefire.failIfNoSpecifiedTests=false

Issue Links

• is related to: SUREFIRE-2119 Inconsistent failIfNoSpecifiedTests parameter prefixes
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #349