Is it possible to run unit-tests with sonar-runner?

I am just learning about unit-testing with SonarQube. From my current understanding running unit-tests requires the use of Maven. I was following this helpful tutorial: http://ift.tt/1BcRfD5 which explains how to display unit-tests results on the SonarQube dashboard. This works if there are relevant Java source-files in the test directory. However, I was wondering if there is a way to do the same thing with sonar-runner instead of mvn. Does anyone out there know?

Thank-you for reading this.

Respectfully,

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