dIon Gillard Upgrade to Xerces 2.8.0. Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 1.3.03. Add the xml-resolver dependency for xerces. Upgrade to Junit 3.8.2. test:testshould honour the maven.test.compile.src.setvariable. Set junit's showoutputattribute if Maven is executed in debug (-X) mode. Allow to add additional elements to the test classpath, new property maven.test.classpath. Display a warning if some tests do not pass (and maven.test.failure.ignore=true). Add timeouts to the test plugin, new property maven.junit.timeout. Add ability to fail the build on test errors, new property maven.test.error.ignore. Do not execute test:test-resourcesand test:compileunless tests will be run. test:singleshould ignore maven.test.skip=true. Test failure doesn't halt execution of test suite. Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. Add maven.test.excludeXmlApis property to avoid duplicated Xerces Added maven.junit.forkmode property Allow multiple patterns in testmatchpattern and testnotmatchpattern Added testnotmatchpattern that can be used in test:match Deprecated testmatch property by testmatchpattern to allow more complex patterns in test:match Deprecate dependency handle honour source modifications for test compilation handle JVM args correctly in test:match only add xml-apis to classpath when forking to avoid classloader issues add maven.junit.envvars property add maven.junit.jvm property accept maven.test.failure.ignore == false Honour maven.test.failure.ignore for test:single and test:match Honour maven.test.skip for other test goals, such as compile Added maven.junit.format property that defaults to brief. Changed formatters to use maven.junit.usefile consistently. Only set 'dir' property of junit task if fork != 'no' Apply MAVEN-309. Reorganise classpaths so that it's test, build, dependencies and then JUnit You can now specify whether the source (java) or classes (class) files are searched when using the test plugin via the property: maven.test.search.classdir. It defaults to use (java) to preserve backwards compatibilty. Using (class) allows you to work with alternative languages that compile to bytecode like Groovy Check if unitTest tag is present in pom before copy resources. Add jvmarg support for junit. Add properties documentation. Fixed classpath for test:ui, test:single and test:match goals. Added xmlapis and xerces to project dependencies as per MAVEN-106 bug report The test plugin now works again if the project has not tests defined. The introduction of the <test:test-resources> goal had broken this feature.