[SUREFIRE-157] Surefire Plugin fails to handle exception thrown from TestNG @BeforeTest method

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.0 (2.2 plugin), 2.3
• Component/s: TestNG support
• Environment: Windows XP, JDK 1.5, Maven 2.0.4, TestNG 5.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: mash
• Created: 14/Sep/06 10:02
• Updated: 31/Jan/15 13:43
• Resolved: 20/Nov/07 17:19

Description

Create a TestNG test with a method as follows:

@BeforeTest
public void beforeTest() {
throw new RuntimeException("Simulate an exception from a beforeTest method");
}

When surefire attempts to run this test, the plugin fails with the following stack trace:

org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: null; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: n
ull
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter.testFailed(AbstractTextReporter.java:106)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:299)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:281)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGReporter.java:97)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1164)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1149)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.handleConfigurationFailure(Invoker.java:191)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:170)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:236)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:145)
at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:901)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:863)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.executeTestNG(TestNGExecutor.java:64)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGXmlTestSuite.execute(TestNGXmlTestSuite.java:75)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:225)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:747)