[SUREFIRE-1230] Issue with config parameter 'redirectTestOutputToFile' when running cucumber parallel tests

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Bug
• Affects Version/s: 2.18.1
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Manoj Palki
• Created: 16/Feb/16 00:50
• Updated: 18/Dec/21 16:11
• Resolved: 30/Mar/18 00:57

Description

The config parameter redirectTestOutputToFile behaves differently based on how parallelism is configured in the surefire plugin.

If the config is
<forkCount>2</forkCount>
<reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
<redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>

then the output from the tests is directed correctly to 'xxxtest-output.txt' file.

However, if the config is
<threadCount>2</threadCount>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>

then the output from the tests is partially directed to the 'xxxtest-output.txt file and partially to stdout.
Also the output files have different names in two cases.