There are two ways to add a list of system properties to Surefire: systemPropertyVariables This configuration is the replacement of the deprecated systemProperties. It can accept any value from Maven's properties that can be converted to a String value. <project> [...] <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.2