Please take a look at the maven-failsafe-plugin, it is a version of surefire to cover your exact use case
On 26 January 2012 19:36, swapsa...@gmail.com <swapsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have been using Maven 2.2.1 for a while now and have used it successfully > for multiple projects so far. I must say it is one the most sophisticated > build system that is well thought and comprehensive in nature. > > I have 'maven'ized a project to a certain extent but we have an outstanding > issue that is troubling developers. Take a deep breath as I explain this > problem below... > > I'm trying to follow beautiful principal of maven lifecycle thoroughly and > performing unit tests in 'test' phase and integration tests in > 'integration-test' phase. Since its a webapp (war), I start/stop server > during pre/post integration-phases. During this 'integration-test', I run a > series of Java JUnit tests that asserts different features of server. If > one > of the test fails, the main maven build comes out saying.. > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] There are test failures. > > And this is very useful for me and treasure this logic very much. > > Life is good so far and here comes the problem. Along with these Java based > JUnit integration tests, I also have some other non-Java, non-JUnit based > tests (actually phantomjs/Jasmine) which validates some other aspects of > server. And this external test executable "exports" its test results in a > xml file that is compatible with JUnit, described here > http://www.junit.org/node/399. Note that this is NOT a junit test and > maven > runtime does not know abt how the test are ran, rather external test exec > just exports a xml file that is fully JUnit result compatible. And if there > is a failure reported in this exported xml file, I need to cause the build > to fail like above. That means I want maven to parse this report xml, treat > it similar to any other tests and cause build to fail. Currently my build > says 'Successful' even if there are test failures in the exported xml file. > > Note: Similar feature exists in the CI tools like Jenkins/TeamCity but its > not something that developer can use locally. I wish simple 'mvn clean > install' to work with my exported xml file. > > Note: Surefire report-only goal does generates the reports with all the > test > xml files I have and shows the test failure in the HTML report. But this > does not cause final build to fail upon test failures. > > Q. Is there a way to tell maven (via plugin or something) that look for > test > failures in the test xml file and declare the build pass/fail? > > Appreciate any help/clues/suggestions. > Thanks you. > Deep 'Maven'er :) > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/How-to-parse-JUnit-report-xml-that-causes-build-to-pass-fail-tp5433750p5433750.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >