I've forked the test case template repo and changed a single property value - when I run 'mvn verify' the tests run successfully, but you get a warning message: "WARN SessionFactoryOptionsBuilder:394 - Unrecognized hbm2ddl_auto value : create-only. Supported values include 'create', 'create-drop', 'update', 'none' and 'validate'. Ignoring". Please find the forked repo here: https://github.com/ahumellihuk/hibernate-test-case-templates