The Maven Cookbook

You want to run a single test class from a Maven project.

To run a specific unit test in a Maven build, pass the name of the test class to the parameter test on the command line.

$ mvn test -Dtest=SeriousComponentTest
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building testng-groups
[INFO]    task-segment: [test]
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[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered 
resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered 
resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /Users/Tim/Library/Code/sonatype/
maven-cookbook/mcookbook-examples/unit/testng-groups/target/surefire-reports

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 T E S T S
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Running TestSuite
Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.466 sec

Results :

Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Nov 26 13:01:58 CST 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/80M
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