[SUREFIRE-806] Make ignoring of <includes> and <excludes> on -Dtest=... optional (for multiple Surefire executions)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.11
• Fix Version/s: 2.12
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: Ondra Žižka
• Created: 08/Dec/11 11:33
• Updated: 18/Jan/12 11:58
• Resolved: 18/Jan/12 11:58

Description

Let's have a single module with multiple Surefire executions (e.g. with different Arquillian configs)
Tests are divided to run in either one, using <includes> and <excludes>.

Then, if you use -Dtest=..., the specified test(s) is run twice - once for each execution (and usually fails in one of them in our scenario).

My suggestion is to introduce a Surefire config property which would make this behavior optional:

<configuration>
  <ignoreIncludesOnSingleTest>false</ignoreIncludesOnSingleTest>
</configuration>

This would cause Surefire to run the intersection of the two sets -
one created by the mask from -Dtest=...,
second created by the includes and excludes of the respective execution.

Current description from http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html :

Specify this parameter to run individual tests by file name, overriding the includes/excludes parameters. Each pattern you specify here will be used to create an include pattern formatted like **/${test}.java, so you can just type "-Dtest=MyTest" to run a single test called "foo/MyTest.java".
This parameter overrides the includes/excludes parameters, and the TestNG suiteXmlFiles parameter.

Issue Links

• is related to: SUREFIRE-778 failIfNoTests=false should not be required when using -Dtest=MyTestClass in multi-module reactor builds