Make maven's surefire show stacktrace in console

Question

I'd like to see the stacktrace of unit tests in the console. Does surefire support this?

score 272 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 12 '17 at 17:39

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A related problem that I found is that surefire in recent versions apparently sets trimStackTrace to true by default (rendering most stack trace in failed tests useless), which is quite inconvenient.

Setting -DtrimStackTrace=false or defining

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

solved this.

edited Sep 12 '17 at 17:39

howlger

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answered Jun 05 '13 at 13:37

h7r

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Yep. Not only does Maven print pages of pointless diarrhea, but it hides what you actually need to see. – Sridhar Sarnobat Oct 05 '16 at 18:18
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I created an issue about this wrong default https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1457. Please comment it to help its reopening. – Réda Housni Alaoui Jan 09 '18 at 10:29
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@RédaHousniAlaoui Seems they moved it to another issue for JUnit 5: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1432 Just voted there. – Kariem Dec 18 '18 at 10:45
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I set both 'trinStackTrace' and 'useFile' to false... and still I'm just getting no stack traces for my test failures :-( – Kris Jun 17 '20 at 18:40
@Kris do you means stack traces has lots of line, the output show ... 26 more? – netawater Aug 14 '20 at 07:42
Default is now `trimStackTrace=false` in 3.0.0-M6. However, we're still using 3.0.0-M5 ... `:--)` – Charlie Reitzel Sep 14 '22 at 17:03

score 60 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '10 at 12:52

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You can use the following command to see the stack trace on console instead of report files in the target/surefire-reports folder:

mvn -Dsurefire.useFile=false test

answered May 28 '10 at 12:52

Eugene Kuleshov

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This only have logger output into console, but stacktraces still goes to surefire-reports – lisak May 24 '11 at 23:01
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The answer using **trimStackTrace** is better! – rü- Feb 19 '20 at 07:36

score 29 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 21 '10 at 16:21

To extend the answer given before, you also can configure this behavior in your pom.xml:

..
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5</version>
  <configuration>
    <useFile>false</useFile>
  </configuration>
</plugin>
..

Make maven's surefire show stacktrace in console

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