When building AlgoQuant with Maven, I got errors with the plugin Surefire. E.g., Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.14:test (default-test) on project algoquant-core: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.14:test failed.

This problem seems to happen mostly on a Mac. Please try to use Surefire version 2.14.1 or above.
You may try to run the maven build with option “-e”.
You may try to skip the unit testing by option “-skipTests”. (In NetBeans, there is such an option under “Maven”.)

If none of the above works, our wild guess is that your VM crash is due to insufficient memory.