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

Try to use the junit Ant task with the timeout parameter.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/junit.html

EDIT:
Another thing you can do is to use aspectj with someting like that:

public aspect TestTimeoutChecker {
    long TIMEOUT = 60000;

    pointcut invokeEvent() :
        execution(@Test * *(..));

    Object around() : invokeEvent() {

        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        Object object = proceed();
        long took = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
        if (took > TIMEOUT) {
            throw new RuntimeException("timeout! it took:" + took);
        }
        return object;
    }
}