[jira] Commented: (SUREFIRE-561) after running test, when tests fail, it's hard to the find the failure reason

["Alexander Klimetschek (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Alexander Klimetschek commented on SUREFIRE-561:
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For working with the file reports, have a look at SUREFIRE-701 - it provides a showSuccess=false option that simply omits successful reports. Together with disableXmlReport=true to get rid of the xml files in target/surefire-reports, very useful when you develop & only look for the failed test reports.

> after running test, when tests fail, it's hard to the find the failure reason
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>                 Key: SUREFIRE-561
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-561
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Maven Surefire Plugin
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.3
>            Reporter: Szczepan Faber
>
> Maven & surefire has been here for a while but still I'm missing this feature. When my tests fail, I'd like to know exact failure reason.
> 1. Surefire summary does not show the stack trace / line number / assertion. Browsing results files in target dir is frustrating & time consuming.
> 2. It is impossible to use surefire-report plugin in fully automated way. If I plug report-only goal to phase test, this goal is not executed when phase test fails
> Current workaround in my project is that every maven submodule has a handy batch file with 'mvn surefire-report:report-only'.
> One of the ways of implementing it is adding stacktrace/assertion information in test summary.
> What do you guys think about this idea?

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