diff --git a/lua/neotest-java/init.lua b/lua/neotest-java/init.lua
index cfbea49..d2194de 100644
--- a/lua/neotest-java/init.lua
+++ b/lua/neotest-java/init.lua
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ function M.build_spec(args)
       "mvn",
     }
     local maven_args = get_maven_args_for_position(position, tree)
-    local joined_args = "Dtest=" .. table.concat(maven_args, ",")
-    vim.list_extend(command, { joined_args, "test" })
+    local joined_args = "-Dtest=" .. table.concat(maven_args, ",")
+    vim.list_extend(command, { "test", joined_args })
   end
   local output = {
     command = table.concat(command, " "),
diff --git a/tests/data/maven_project/pom.xml b/tests/data/maven_project/pom.xml
index e69de29..c7afad1 100644
--- a/tests/data/maven_project/pom.xml
+++ b/tests/data/maven_project/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
+    <artifactId>example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>junit</groupId>
+        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+        <version>4.13.2</version>
+        <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
+          <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
+          <version>3.24.2</version>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+      </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/tests/data/maven_project/src/main/java/FileWithTests.java b/tests/data/maven_project/src/main/java/FileWithTests.java
index 9998105..fd47901 100644
--- a/tests/data/maven_project/src/main/java/FileWithTests.java
+++ b/tests/data/maven_project/src/main/java/FileWithTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-public class Junk {
-    public boolean some_result() {
-        return true;
-    }
+public class FileWithTests {
+  public boolean some_result() {
+    return true;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/tests/init_spec.lua b/tests/init_spec.lua
index c29deab..6dd0117 100644
--- a/tests/init_spec.lua
+++ b/tests/init_spec.lua
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ describe("build_spec", function()
       return data.id
     end)
     local spec = plugin.build_spec({ tree = tree })
-    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests#passing_test test")
+    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn test -Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests#passing_test")
   end)
   async.it("maven - successful on single namespace", function()
     local tree = Tree.from_list({
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ describe("build_spec", function()
       return data.id
     end)
     local spec = plugin.build_spec({ tree = tree })
-    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests test")
+    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn test -Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests")
   end)
   async.it("maven - runs on entire file in subdir", function()
     local tree = Tree.from_list({
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ describe("build_spec", function()
       return x.id
     end)
     local spec = plugin.build_spec({ tree = tree })
-    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests test")
+    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn test -Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests")
   end)
   async.it("maven - runs on entire directory", function()
     local dir = path_join(maven_files.root, "src", "test", "java", "subdir")
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ describe("build_spec", function()
       return x.id
     end)
     local spec = plugin.build_spec({ tree = tree })
-    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests,subdir.AnotherFileWithTests test")
+    assert.equals(spec.command, "mvn test -Dtest=subdir.FileWithTests,subdir.AnotherFileWithTests")
   end)
 end)