I need to be able to set a timeout in the unit tests because we have graphical tests that block from time to time. Here is what I would like to be added in the plugin.jelly as part of the junit element: <junit printSummary="${maven.junit.printsummary}" failureProperty="maven.test.failure" fork="${maven.junit.fork}" dir="${maven.junit.dir}"> <!-- start of script to control the timeouut --> <j:if test="${context.getVariable('maven.junit.timeout') != null}"> <setProperty name="timeout" value="${maven.junit.timeout}" /> </j:if> <!-- end of script to control the timeouut -->