Resolution of error reporting when using maven3 test function together with nexus

Maven3 is a powerful tool that free programers from duplicate building and testing work. Its integration with JUnit 4 is one of its shining point.  However, you may find it confusing when using "mvn test" command to execute a JUnit test class and errors occur. Sometimes like this below:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.16:test (default-test) on project xxx: There are test failures.

This problem will not occur if your local maven repository connects to Maven Central Repository directly rather than through nexus server. But if you are in the next scene, you must add these codes below in your project pom.xml file to inform nexus server to download denpended jar files from Central Repository.

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.16</version>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>

<artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>

<version>2.16</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</plugin>

Detailed information could be retrieved from http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/junit.html.

Hope it could help you a bit.