title: Does Maven surefire plugin run tests using multiple threads?
body: <p>I'm wondering if the Maven surefire plugin either runs tests multi-threaded by default (and if so can the number of threads be controlled? ) or if it runs tests from the Test classes in a random order or predictable order, or if the order can dictated by some means.  </p>
  
  <p>I haven't verified this yet (I'll do so tomorrow just looking for some heads up guidance and verification at this point), but it looks as if my various JUnit Test classes are getting the tests run in some intermixed order.  Which makes it a real pain to orchestrate the creating of the test resources (which are quite hefty in my case).</p>
  
  <p>Its probably a classic problem I run my suite with the Eclipse JUnit runner and everything runs very linear and plays nice.  I go to Maven cmd line and things seems to be stepping all over each other.</p>