Maven Surefire Junit4

From Foochal

Maven is not running my @BeforeClass method

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 T E S T S
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[surefire] Running org.foochal.AppTest
[surefire] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.011 sec <<<<<<<< FAILURE !! 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] There are test failures.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[DEBUG] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: There are test failures.
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:480)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:459)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:272)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
	at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: There are test failures.
	at org.apache.maven.test.SurefirePlugin.execute(SurefirePlugin.java:389)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:443)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
	... 16 more

Solution

Surefire version 2.1.3 uses Junit3. Upgrade to Surefire version 2.3 and you will be automatically switched over to Junit4.

  <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3</version>
  </plugin>