TestNg - Exclude a class(testrunner) via mvn command line - maven

Question

Description :
As a user, I would like to exclude a class ( Test Runner ) when I am running mvn clean test
Pseudo Code :
~ mvn clean verify -Dexclude=SampleTest
How I run my build :
~ mvn clean verify; this triggers a surefire plugin that targets the testng.xml
XML: ( TESTNG )
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Automated UI Tests">
<test name = "Cucumber Test" verbose="2">
<classes>
<class name="com.testrunners.SampleTest"/>
<class name="com.testrunners.Sample2Test"/>
<class name="com.testrunners.Sample3Test"/>
</classes>
</test>
</suite>
I tried grouping ( #Test groups=sample ), but that doesn't seem to work with my case.
Not sure if it matters, but here's a snippet of my test runner.
package com.testrunners;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;
import cucumber.api.testng.AbstractTestNGCucumberTests;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
#RunWith(Cucumber.class)
#CucumberOptions(
features = {
"src/test/java/com/features/",
},
glue = {
"com.stepdefinitions"
},
monochrome = true,
tags = {
"#smoke"
},
plugin = {"pretty",
"html:target/cucumber/sample",
"json:target/cucumber-report/sample/cucumber.json",
"json:target/sample/cucumber.json",
"com.aventstack.extentreports.cucumber.adapter.ExtentCucumberAdapter: target/sample/report.html"}
)
public class SampleTest extends AbstractTestNGCucumberTests {
}
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Answer 1

From your question, it seems to me you are using maven failsafe plugin for execution.
2 approaches can be used:
From Maven Failsafe plugin:
You can can use excludes property in POM.xml. Please see the configuration to do it. Reference from Maven failsafe official doc plugin.
1 <project>
2 [...]
3 <build>
4 <plugins>
5 <plugin>
6 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
7 <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
8 <version>3.0.0-M4</version>
9 <configuration>
10 <excludes>
11 <exclude>**/CircleIT.java</exclude>
12 <exclude>**/SquareIT.java</exclude>
13 </excludes>
14 </configuration>
15 </plugin>
16 </plugins>
17 </build>
18 [...]
19 </project>
You can check this here:
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/inclusion-exclusion.html
This way you can run test cases using
mvn clean verify
From TestNG:
Test classes and class cannot be directly excluded; however, you can exclude classes through groups:
#Test(groups = { "ClassTest1" })
public class Test1 {
public void testMethod1() {
}
public void testMethod2() {
}
}
Then you will define the testng.xml:
<suite>
<test>
<groups>
<run>
<exclude name="ClassTest1"/>
</run>
</groups>
<classes>
<class name="Test1">
</classes>
</test>