[SUREFIRE-631] turn on useFile=false from the command line?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: James Strachan
• Created: 03/Aug/10 06:13
• Updated: 22/Jan/11 13:07
• Resolved: 22/Jan/11 13:07

Description

When running tests from the command line (e.g. "mvn test -Dtest=FooTest" actually showing on the console the summary and stack trace of failures is very useful.

However many projects have surefire configured in a root pom.xml and often has the default of useFile=true.

It would be nice to be able to do something like...

mvn test -Dtest=foo -DuseFile=false

to be able to get a nice output of what the failed exception is and the stack trace etc.

It might be nice to enable useFile=false when -Dtest= is specified too.

How about we add a new field which maps to -DuseFile and if its specified then override the configuration from the pom.xml?

Issue Links

• is related to: SUREFIRE-561 after running test, when tests fail, it's hard to the find the failure reason