[HADOOP-8117] Upgrade test build to Surefire 2.12

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.3, 0.24.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: build, test
• Target Version/s: 0.23.3, 0.24.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 28/Feb/12 00:25
• Updated: 23/May/12 20:15
• Resolved: 18/Apr/12 22:23

Description

Surefire 2.9, which we're using currently, has a few annoying bugs. In particular, if a test exits with a non-zero exit code, it doesn't report the test as failed.

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-3019 TestEditLogJournalFailures silently failing