Maven doesn't execute any unit test

Question

I am using Maven with multi-modules. There are 3 projects.

foo(the parent project)
foo-core
foo-bar

I configure all the dependencies and plugins in foo's pom:

<modules>
    <module>../foo-core</module>
    <module>../foo-bar</module>
</modules>

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            ...
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<build>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.14.1</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
                    <artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>
                    <version>2.14.1</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
</build>

There are several base classes and util classes for unit test in foo-core, so I add the maven-jar-plugin in foo-core project to make it available to foo-bar:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                   <goals>
                       <goal>test-jar</goal>
                   </goals>
               </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

When I execute test goal, I got the result as follow:

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
parallel='none', perCoreThreadCount=true, threadCount=2, useUnlimitedThreads=false

Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

I do got tests in my projects. But why it doesn't run any of them?

Answer 1

Rename test files from **Tests.java to **Test.java or add the following configuration to pom.xml

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.14.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <includes>
      <include>**/*Tests.java</include>
    </includes>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 2

Additionally, one more cause for such a behaviour is if you have an exclusion for junit-vintage-engine in your pom.xml dependencies.

In my case I had excluded it from the spring-boot-starter-test dependency in my pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
  <scope>test</scope>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

This resulted in the same problem. Maven not able to recognize/find any test cases in the project even though they are present.

So just remove the exclusions section and run the maven command again.

Answer 3

Had similar issue was able to run unit test case by adding dependency to sunfire plugin

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.22.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
                    <artifactId>surefire-junit4</artifactId>
                    <version>2.22.0</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </plugin>

above worked fine byb executing test cases on mvn install , mvn test and all

Answer 4

I had a similar problem today. I had converted most of my tests to JUnit5 and surefire was not executing them via mvn test. I had to modify the pom.xml entry for surefire to force it to use the JUnit5 engine as it was selecting JUnit4 by default

Dependencies section (vintage is for the JUnit4 tests)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
    <version>${junit-jupiter.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
    <version>${junit-jupiter.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Plugin section

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M6</version>
    <configuration>
        <argLine>@{argLine}</argLine>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
            <artifactId>surefire-junit-platform</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M6</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

Answer 5

In my case, it was necessary to add the word "Test" to the end of the name of all files with tests. For example, if you have "LoginTestNegative" then this will not work. You need to rename this to LoginNegativeTest. And now it will work.