title: Is there a way to "fail fast" for junit with the maven surefire plugin?
body: <p>I'm currently working on a java project using maven.  We use the maven surefire plugin to run our junit suite as part of the build process.</p>
  
  <p>Our test suite is rapidly growing, in both coverage and execution time.  The execution time is very frustrating  and time consuming when you end up waiting ten minutes to find out that a test failed in the first minute of testing.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to find a way to make the build process fail upon the first error/failure in the test suite.  I know that this is possible for other build tools, but I have been unable to find a way to do this with maven surefire.</p>
  
  <p>I know that there is <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-580" rel="noreferrer" title="An unresolved ticket for this in the surefire jira">an unresolved ticket for this functionality</a> in the surefire jira, but I'm hoping that there is an existing solution out there for this.</p>