Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test

I had similar issue, I was able to solve it using -U option along with mvn command as

mvn clean install -U

This worked for me, hope it helps.

You're probably missing some dependencies.

Locate the dependencies you're missing with mvn dependency:tree, then install them manually, and build your project with the -o (offline) option.

I had a similar problem but all answers here didn't help me.

For me the problem was a failing test. If you are doing test driven development, then a failing or not implemented test shouldn't break the build. I still want my project to build.

To solve this, I added a configuration to surefire so that it ignores a failing test.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.19.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

This error occurs if some unit test cases are failing.

In my application, certain unit tests were not compatible with Java 8 so they were failing. My error was resolved after changing jdk1.8.0_92 to jdk1.7.0_80.

The build would succeed with mvn clean install -DskipTests but this will skip the unit tests. So just ensure that you run then separately after the build is complete.