Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test

Question

I have scoured the internet for almost five days now looking for a fix to this issue, but I cannot seem to find and fix it on my own, mainly because I am so new to both Mave

Answer 1

please follow this tutorial: https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/maven/creating-code-coverage-reports-for-unit-and-integration-tests-with-the-jacoco-maven-plugin/

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.15</version>
<configuration>
    <!-- Sets the VM argument line used when unit tests are run. -->
    <argLine>${surefireArgLine}</argLine>
    <!-- Skips unit tests if the value of skip.unit.tests property is true -->
    <skipTests>${skip.unit.tests}</skipTests>
    <!-- Excludes integration tests when unit tests are run. -->
    <excludes>
        <exclude>**/IT*.java</exclude>
    </excludes>
</configuration>

Answer 2

This error occurs if some unit test cases are failing.

In my application, certain unit tests were not compatible with Java 8 so they were failing. My error was resolved after changing jdk1.8.0_92 to jdk1.7.0_80.

The build would succeed with mvn clean install -DskipTests but this will skip the unit tests. So just ensure that you run then separately after the build is complete.