title: how to get maven surefire to produce incremental console output?
body: <p>My maven surefire tests don't produce any console output while running the actual tests themselves, i.e. the console shows the output below, and then spins for the duration of the test.  When the test is completed, the console output is available, but not until then.  So the question is, how can I disable this buffering?</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Using configured provider org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreProvider
  
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   T E S T S
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  Concurrency config is parallel='none', perCoreThreadCount=true, threadCount=2, useUnlimitedThreads=false
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's the relevant section of my pom:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-surefire-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;!-- version 2.12 has a bug in single-test --&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.11&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;dependencies&gt;
                  &lt;dependency&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.surefire&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;surefire-junit47&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;version&gt;2.11&lt;/version&gt;
                  &lt;/dependency&gt;
              &lt;/dependencies&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's running on (ahem) Windows, if that matters.</p>