maven - fail build when unit test takes too long

Question

I have in my project a lot of unit tests, written in JUnit and TestNG. The building process is based on maven with surefire plugin.

Is there any way/plugin for maven to

Answer 1

In maven surefire, you can use forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds, along with forkMode=once.

This will kill the forked jvm if it takes too long. If you want to do this per test, you can forkMode=pertest or forkMode=always (which does it for each class).