<plugins>
    [...]
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.12.3</version>
        <configuration>
          <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    [...]
</plugins>

File tmpFile = ...
try {
   // deal with tempFile
} finally {
    tempFile.delete();
}

public class MyTestCase {
    private File tmpFile = null;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        tmpFile = ...;
    }

    @Test
    public void setUp() {
        // deal with tmpFile
    }

    @After
    public void setUp() {
        tmpFile.delete();
    }
}

File file = File.createTempFile( "some-prefix", "some-ext");
file.deleteOnExit();

File file = File.createTempFile( "prefix", "ext", new File("/some/dir/path"));

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
    <configuration>
        <systemPropertyVariables>
            <myOutDir>${project.build.outputDirectory}</myOutDir>
        </systemPropertyVariables>
    </configuration>
</plugin>