JUnit tests pass in Eclipse but fail in Maven Surefire
I had the same problem (JUnit tests failed in Maven Surefire but passed in Eclipse) and managed to solve it by setting forkMode to always in the maven surefire configuration in pom.xml: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.12</version> <configuration> <forkMode>always</forkMode> </configuration> </plugin> Surefire parameters: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html Edit (January 2014): As Peter Perháč pointed out, the forkMode parameter is … Read more