[SUREFIRE-410] Surefire swallows serious errors in fork mode "once"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: classloading
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yuri Schimke
• Created: 17/Dec/07 09:16
• Updated: 19/Dec/07 15:44
• Resolved: 19/Dec/07 15:44

Description

suerfire-reports is not created, so there is no where to check the error

[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: C:\p4store\...\target\surefire-reports
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] There are test failures.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The only way I see the actual error, is by setting forkMode=never.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Unable to instantiate POJO 'class com.XXX.TestAp
plicationEvent'; nested exception is java.lang.InstantiationException: com.XXX.TestApplicationEvent; nested exception is org.apache.mav
en.surefire.testset.TestSetFailedException: Unable to instantiate POJO 'class co
m.XXXX.TestApplicationEvent'; nested exception is java.l
ang.InstantiationException: com.XXX.TestApplicationEven
t

In this case the exception is caused by surefire detecting TestApplicationEvent as a test when it is not. Once I adjusted the excludes, I got the tests running.