Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:test (default-test) on project.

This solved my issue. It was 2.10 in my POM, just updated to 2.19.1 and refresh the POM

Add to your pom :

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

In your error code he didn't find surefire plugin so add it

This is what solves the problem:

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

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

This happens when Maven tries to run your test cases while building the jar. You can simply skip running the test cases by adding -DskipTests at the end of your maven command.

Ex: mvn clean install -DskipTests or mvn clean package -DskipTests

Was facing the same issue multiple times and I have 2 solutions:

Solution 1: Add surefire plugin reference to pom.xml. Watch that you have all nodes! In my IDEs auto import version was missing!!!

<plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

Solution 2: My IDE added wrong import to the start of the file.

IDE added

import org.junit.Test;

I had to replace it with

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;