Current usage is
   $ mvn clean verify -Dtycho.surefire.installPath=...
which will automatically enable the profile and set the profileName (cf 
activation element).

Your suggestion seems to make things more complicated (more parameters). 
would renaming tycho.surefire.installPath to test.installPath and 
tycho.surefire.profileName to test.profileName be enough?

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