Send notification when test fails but don't stop the build

[Julien HENRY <he...@yahoo.fr>]

Hi,

On my Continuum server there are some projects with JUnit test failures. These projects are sometimes dependencies for other projects. Currently the build stop when there is a JUnit test failure and a mail is sent to the dev team.

The issue is that the maven site is not generated because the build stop immediatly after JUnit tests. Also the project is not installed/deployed so other projects depending on this project are failing too (compilation error/unable to find dependency).

I know the option maven.test.failure.ignore=true but as far as I know this is not a good practice because developpers will not be notified of the test failures and on the Continuum UI there will be no more information that the project has some test failures.

What is the best practice concerning this point?

Thanks,

Julien



      

Re : Send notification when test fails but don't stop the build

[Julien HENRY <he...@yahoo.fr>]

Hi Wendy,

Currently all the build is done with one execution. Something like:

mvn clean deploy site-deploy +sonar +dashboard

I'll try with something like:

Build 1: mvn clean deploy
Build 2: mvn site-deploy -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true +sonar +dashboard

Thanks for your suggestion

Julien



----- Message d'origine ----
De : Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>
À : users@continuum.apache.org
Envoyé le : Jeudi, 14 Mai 2009, 18h50mn 45s
Objet : Re: Send notification when test fails but don't stop the build

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Julien HENRY <he...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> The issue is that the maven site is not generated because the build stop immediatly after JUnit tests. Also the project is not installed/deployed so other projects depending on this project are failing too (compilation error/unable to find dependency).

How is your build definition configured?  Are you doing the build and
the site all at once?

> I know the option maven.test.failure.ignore=true but as far as I know this is not a good practice because developpers will not be notified of the test failures and on the Continuum UI there will be no more information that the project has some test failures.

I would probably do two separate builds, one for the normal ci build
which fails when the tests fail, and one for the website which ignores
failures and publishes the site.

-- 
Wendy



      

Re: Send notification when test fails but don't stop the build

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Julien HENRY <he...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> The issue is that the maven site is not generated because the build stop immediatly after JUnit tests. Also the project is not installed/deployed so other projects depending on this project are failing too (compilation error/unable to find dependency).

How is your build definition configured?  Are you doing the build and
the site all at once?

> I know the option maven.test.failure.ignore=true but as far as I know this is not a good practice because developpers will not be notified of the test failures and on the Continuum UI there will be no more information that the project has some test failures.

I would probably do two separate builds, one for the normal ci build
which fails when the tests fail, and one for the website which ignores
failures and publishes the site.

-- 
Wendy