Run a specific test

The problem:

You have a group of unit tests that you run through the Maven Surefire plugin. You do not want Surefire to run all the tests, rather you want only one specific test to run.

The solution:

This one is easy, all you need to do is put a little something into your command to tell the Surefire plugin "run just this one test". What does this look like? Here is an example: "mvn -Dtest=FunTest package". Here you want to package your applicaiton, but you are going to run the FunTest first. Notice you don't put a ".java" or ".class" extension onto the name. Thats it, you can use the "-Dtest=..." to run a single test anytime that the Surefire plugin will be run.