Running a Single Test
During development, you may run a single test class repeatedly. To run this through Maven, set the test property to a specific test case.
mvn -Dtest=TestCircle test
The value for the test parameter is the name of the test class (without the extension; we'll strip off the extension if you accidentally provide one).
You may also use patterns to run a number of tests:
mvn -Dtest=TestCi*le test
And you may use multiple names/patterns, separated by commas:
mvn -Dtest=TestSquare,TestCi*le test
Running a set of methods in a Single Test Class
With version 2.7.3, you can run only n tests in a single Test Class.
NOTE : it's supported for junit 4.x and TestNG.
You must use the following syntax
mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#mytest test
You can use patterns too
mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#test* test
As of surefire 2.12.1, you can select multiple methods (JUnit4X only at this time, patches welcome)
mvn -Dtest=TestCircle#testOne+testTwo test