Tips **** Logging ======= http://www.nabble.com/logging-t1665711.html if you're on *nix, and you want to ensure that you see any severe errors in your logfile, you should also add '2*&1' to that command line. Usually, I'm casually watching my builds, but want to have the option to go back and sift through it, so I use this*: :: mvn clean test 2>&1 | tee output.log or on Windows: :: mvn clean test > output.log 2>&1