We are pleased to announce the Maven Test Plugin 1.8 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/test/ Run JUnit tests. =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Set junit's showoutputattribute if Maven is executed in debug (-X) mode. Fixes MPTEST-43. o Allow to add additional elements to the test classpath, new property maven.test.classpath. Fixes MPTEST-47. Thanks to Henning Schmiedehausen. o Display a warning if some tests do not pass (and maven.test.failure.ignore=true). Fixes MPTEST-36. o Add timeouts to the test plugin, new property maven.junit.timeout. Fixes MPTEST-10. o Add ability to fail the build on test errors, new property maven.test.error.ignore. Fixes MPTEST-58. Thanks to Mauro Botelho. o Add maven.test.excludeXmlApis property to avoid duplicated Xerces Fixes MPTEST-55. Thanks to Eric Hartmann. Fixed bugs: o test:testshould honour the maven.test.compile.src.setvariable. Fixes MPTEST-49. o Do not execute test:test-resourcesand test:compileunless tests will be run. Fixes MPTEST-46. o test:singleshould ignore maven.test.skip=true. Fixes MPTEST-59. o Test failure doesn't halt execution of test suite. Fixes MPTEST-39. Changes: o Upgrade to Xerces 2.8.0. Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 1.3.03. Add the xml-resolver dependency for xerces. Fixes MAVEN-1753. o Upgrade to Junit 3.8.2. o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. Fixes MAVEN-1712. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-test-plugin -Dversion=1.8 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-test-plugin-1.8.jar =============================================================================== Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven Test Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPTEST Have fun! -The Maven Test Plugin development team