[SUREFIRE-560] tests with @Ignore are treated as "unsuccessful"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.2
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Report Plugin
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Jörg Hohwiller
• Created: 25/Jul/09 04:49
• Updated: 26/Oct/13 03:58
• Resolved: 12/Jan/11 11:24

Description

According to SUREFIRE-303 you care about @Ignore tests which is generally a good idea.
However you treat them as "unsuccessful" and then dashboard-maven-plugin marks this in red.

I am using @Ignore for JUnit test-methods that can NOT run headless or in a os-independent batch, or whatever.
Generally I think that this is what @Ignore is all about. If I have tests that do not work but definitely should, I would
NOT add an @Ignore and get an according failure until the bug is fixed.

So either provide a way to mark test-methods as skipped by maven but not treated unsuccessful, e.g.
via some prefix like "OK:" in @Ignore("OK: manual test") or by generally treating @Ignore
as harmless. I personally suggest the latter.