Question

We would like to create test report specific to user who fired the request in the server. If we change pom this way

<configuration>
    <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/${user.name}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>

This produces the user name of the server, not the individual who fired the test. I have seen one possible solution like mvn surefire-report:report -DoutputDirectory=newpath. But wondering, how can we pass the user name through command prompt.

Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Create a property in your pom file:

<pom>
    ...
    <properties>
        <some.propertyName></some.propertyName>
    </properties>
    ...
    <configuration>
        <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/${some.propertyName}</outputDirectory>
    </configuration>
</pom>

Then you use it like this:

mvn surefire-report:report -Dsome.propertyName=DonaldDuck