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[regression] excludedGroups configuration parameter has no effect #3503
Description
Affected version
3.6.0
Bug description
After upgrade from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 excludedGroups config element appear to no longer have any effect.
The cases tagged with the tags listed in excludedGroups get executed though they do not with 3.5.0 (as expected).
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<configuration>
<excludedGroups>slow,time-out,stale-conn</excludedGroups>
</configuration>
</plugin>
The problem should be reproducible with the master branch of Apache HttpClient
I could not find anything related to excluded groups or tag exclusion in the 3.6.0 release notes.
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/whats-new-3-6-0.html
https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/blob/master/pom.xml#L450
Reacted by Philipp Trulson and Christian Ortlepp
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[-][regression][/-][+][regression] excludedGroups configuration parameter has no effect[/+]cortlepp commentedon Oct 9, 2026
I just wanted to say that I can reproduce the issue when upgrading from 3.5.6 to 3.6.0, so it was definitely introduced in 3.6.0 . As far as I can tell though the excludedGroups aren't always ignored, it depends on the rest of the configuration (I haven't figured out on what exactly).
olamy commentedon Oct 10, 2026
Well, this can be "fixed", but the issue with the given project is testcontainers bringing
junit:junithere.There are 2 workarounds:
Anyway the fix for #3468 will fix this as well.
ok2c commentedon Oct 10, 2026
@olamy Much appreciated. I will look into Testcontainers upgrade.
olamy commentedon Oct 10, 2026
no worries. you can try this PR this should fix the issue #3517
ok2c commentedon Oct 10, 2026
@olamy Testcontainers upgrade to 2.0.5 fixed the issue for us.
Fix groups and excludedGroups for Spock and Jupiter tests when JUnit …