The 2.8 version of the maven-surefire-plugin has changed the way test summaries are formatted at the command line. The summaries now include the failure message for each failing test. In some cases, this failure message corresponds to an exception message from a framework like Spring, which can be over 1000 characters long, as it includes details like which XML file was being read, which bean was being loaded, what the bean's type was, and so on. Including this failure message in the test summary obscures the method/class names, making the summary difficult to read.
For now I've reverted to Surefire 2.7, which doesn't have this problem. But is there a way to configure newer versions of the maven-surefire-plugin to omit these failure messages, or to truncate them to a reasonable length? Thanks, - Aaron
