$ mvn -o -B test -Dtest=PlainValidationNoCdiTest (trimmed to the test's own RESULT line and the surefire summary) RESULT[cdi-plain-validation-no-injection]: validating StockLevel(3) with Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory() (no CDI container running) throws jakarta.validation.ValidationException -> caused by java.lang.NullPointerException ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test set: com.ankurm.hibernatedemo.validation.PlainValidationNoCdiTest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.345 s -- in com.ankurm.hibernatedemo.validation.PlainValidationNoCdiTest