[SUREFIRE-1088] When test fail during initialization the test execution time can result in a large negative number.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.16
• Fix Version/s: 2.18
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Andreas Gudian
• Reporter: Daniel Cruver
• Created: 07/Aug/14 13:05
• Updated: 13/Oct/14 11:34
• Resolved: 11/Oct/14 16:08

Description

For example it will print out this:

Time elapsed: -1,317,678.69 sec <<< ERROR!

This happened in a call to @BeforeClass method and was specifically when a class was not found when loading in a spring context. The later is not that important because we have seen it happen in other cases.