showSuccess option for test reports: show reports only for failed tests
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Key: SUREFIRE-701
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-701
Project: Maven Surefire
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Maven Surefire Plugin
Affects Versions: 2.7.3
Reporter: Alexander Klimetschek
Attachments: showsuccess.patch
Use case:
When you have a few tests, and some of them fail during
development/refactoring, you find yourself repeatedly looking into
target/surefire-reports to open the test report (txt) files with the errors and
stack traces to analyze them. However, by default reports will be written also
for successful tests, and both in txt and xml format (the xml files can already
be omitted using disableXmlReport=false). This makes it hard to find the files
that contain the failed tests.
Solution proposal:
Just as the maven-surefire-report-plugin already has a showSuccess option,
that, if set to "false", will not report successful tests, the same should be
available for the maven-surefire-plugin and the normal test goal.
Either set "-DshowSuccess=false" on the command line or define
"<showSuccess>false</showSuccess>" in the maven-surefire-plugin configuration
of the pom, and reports for successful tests should not be written to the
reports directory.
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