TestNG Maven Surefire Plugin Configurations

TestNG Maven surefire plugin configurations let us define which tests to execute when we run the maven build. When we have a large project with many test cases, then it comes handy to configure only specific test suites for execution.

TestNG Maven Project

During the series of TestNG Tutorials here, I have created a lot of test classes and TestNG XML suite files. Below image shows the current project structure and all the test classes it has.

Now when I run a maven build, it scans the project and executes all the test classes. So project build takes a lot of time. If I am interested in specific tests only, chances are that its logging gets lost in all the noise created by other tests.

Maven Surefire Plugin

Maven surefire plugin is used to run the project tests. It also allows us to configure which XML suites to execute when we build our project. Below configuration will tell maven surefire plugin to execute only testng.xml and test_parameters.xml test suite files.

<build>
	<plugins>
		<plugin>
			<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
			<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
			<version>2.21.0</version>
			<configuration>
                   <!-- TestNG Suite XML files list for test execution -->
                   <suiteXmlFiles>
                       <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                       <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/test_parameters.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                   </suiteXmlFiles>
               </configuration>
		</plugin>
	</plugins>
</build>

Now when we perform maven build by running mvn clean install or mvn test commands, we get a clean output for our tests.

That’s all for configuring maven-surefire-plugin to execute only specific TestNG XML suite files.