Take into account TaskDefs with only TestSelectors.

src/main/java/com/novocode/junit/JUnitRunner.java

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import org.junit.runner.notification.RunListener;
 import sbt.testing.Runner;
 import sbt.testing.Task;
+import sbt.testing.Selector;
+import sbt.testing.TestSelector;
 import sbt.testing.TaskDef;
 
 import java.util.*;
@@ -77,15 +79,38 @@ else if(s.startsWith("-D") && s.contains("=")) {
   @Override
   public Task[] tasks(TaskDef[] taskDefs) {
     used = true;
-    int length = taskDefs.length;
-    Task[] tasks = new Task[length];
-    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-      TaskDef taskDef = taskDefs[i];
-      tasks[i] = new JUnitTask(this, settings, taskDef);
-    }
+    Task[] tasks = Arrays
+        .stream(taskDefs)
+        .map(taskDef -> {
+          RunSettings alteredSettings = alterRunSettings(this.settings, taskDef.selectors());
+          return new JUnitTask(this, alteredSettings, taskDef);
+        })
+        .toArray(Task[]::new);
     return tasks;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Alter default RunSettings depending on the passed selectors.
+   * If selectors contains only elements of type TestSelector, then default settings are altered to include only test
+   * names from these selectors. This allows to run particular test cases within given test class.
+   * testFilter is treated as a regular expression, hence joining is done via '|'.
+   */
+  private RunSettings alterRunSettings(RunSettings defaultSettings, Selector[] selectors) {
+    boolean onlyTestSelectors = Arrays.stream(selectors).allMatch(selector -> selector instanceof TestSelector);
+    if (onlyTestSelectors) {
+      String testFilter = Arrays
+          .stream(selectors)
+          .map(selector -> ((TestSelector) selector).testName())
+          .collect(Collectors.joining("|"));
+      // if already provided testFilter is not empty add to it | (regex or operator)
+      String currentFilter = defaultSettings.testFilter.length() > 0 ? defaultSettings.testFilter + "|" : "";
+      String newFilter = currentFilter + testFilter;
+      return defaultSettings.withTestFilter(newFilter);
+    }
+
+    return defaultSettings;
+  }
+
   private RunListener createRunListener(String runListenerClassName) {
     if(runListenerClassName != null) {
       try {

src/main/java/com/novocode/junit/RunSettings.java

@@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ class RunSettings {
     this.testFilter = testFilter;
   }
 
+  public RunSettings withTestFilter(String newTestFilter) {
+    String ignoreRunners = String.join(",", this.ignoreRunners);
+    return new RunSettings(
+        this.color, this.decodeScalaNames, this.quiet, this.verbosity, this.summary, this.logAssert,
+        ignoreRunners, this.logExceptionClass, this.sysprops, this.globPatterns, this.includeCategories,
+        this.excludeCategories, newTestFilter
+    );
+  }
+
   String decodeName(String name) {
     return decodeScalaNames ? decodeScalaName(name) : name;
   }
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ String buildErrorMessage(Throwable t) {
 
   private String buildColoredName(Description desc, String c1, String c2, String c3) {
     StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
-    
+
     String cn = decodeName(desc.getClassName());
     int pos1 = cn.indexOf('$');
     int pos2 = pos1 == -1 ? cn.lastIndexOf('.') : cn.lastIndexOf('.', pos1);