This is a multi-module project, yes? Can you drill down to the module with test
failures and see if it's marked as unstable?

That's correct, it's a multi-module project, and no, if I drill down the modules
in Hudson, they all show they passed successfully. None of the modules show that
the tests failed, and are marked with the yellow ball.

Are you still able to see this problem in a recent Hudson release?
If you can attach a simple pom+src bundle we can use to reproduce the problem it would help, thanks.

Reopen if you still see this issue on a recent Hudson release, thanks.

Hi,

We are experiencing the exact same problems as mentioned above. I just installed the latest stable release (1.386) but faild junit tests does not mark the project as unstable. Some project setup facts:

• Maven2
• JUnit
• Surefire
• Multi-module

Let me know if you need src+pom to reproduce this and I'll throw something together.

[src+pom] yes, please..

I'm sure I added a comment once I solved this problem but I cant find it. Anyway this problem is solved for me and it was our own fault. We had disabled the XML report generation for the surefire tests so hudson could not pick up on the test results. Once we enabled the XML reports everything worked as expected.

As far as I'm concerned you can close this issue.

I have a requirement where i want to fail the build if the number of tests failed is more than a defined threshold so setting this maven.test.failure.ignore=false will not help as i dont want to always fail the build but only based on a defined threshold.

I have added System.exit(1) to fail the build in jenkins. It works in Free style project of jenkins but in Maven type project it does not mark the build as failure with System.exit. However when i tried running the tests in Post build step of Maven Type of Project it fails the build but same does not fail when run tests in Build Step. Please advise.