The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called
I had the same problem and solved by adding: <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine> The whole plugin element is: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <forkCount>3</forkCount> <reuseForks>true</reuseForks> <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine> </configuration> </plugin>