Is this is a manual test? 

As far as I know, by default surefire will run all tests in the same JVM, so it depends on the order of the test classes at runtime (which is unpredictable as far as I know, you can only do intra-class method ordering as far as I know) as to whether this would actually be the first test (given that the other tests will already be triggering it automatically or manually in the test class.