Stop Tests on first Failure with Maven/JUnit/Spring
This is more a remark, than an answer, but still, maybe you'll find it useful.
I'd recommend separating your integration tests into a separate phase, and running them with Failsafe, rather than Surefire. This way you can decide whether you need to run only fast unit tests, or the complete set with long-running integration tests:
<plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <executions> <execution> <id>integration-test</id> <goals> <goal>integration-test</goal> </goals> </execution> <!-- Uncomment/comment this in order to fail the build if any integration test fail --> <execution> <id>verify</id> <goals><goal>verify</goal></goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins>
A workaround for your problem might be singling out a test into a separate execution and run it first; this way the execution would fail and subsequent surefire/failsafe executions will not be launched. See how to configure the plugin to do it.