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[SUREFIRE-2095] Fork crash doesn't fail build with -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true when run with failsafe

Open br0nstein opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

When maven.test.failure.ignore is enabled, a test that crashes the JVM (e.g. that causes an OOM, with -XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryError) currently does not cause a build failure. This is perhaps the right behavior but is an issue in a CI setting because the following:

  1. No failsafe-reports/TEST-*.xml file is created that corresponds to the test that crashed.
  2. No failsafe-reports/TEST-*.xml files are created for all the tests that did not run (because they were to run after the crashed test in that same forked process). Because of that, in a Jenkins setting, the Jenkins Junit plugin does not identify any test failures and the build is marked successful instead of unstable. The forked process crash is only identified in the failsafe-summary XML (in the failureMessage) which AFAIK the Junit plugin does not parse to drive the build status.

This PR ensures that whether test failures are configured to be ignored or not, such a crash in the forked process by the failsafe plugin will always fail the build, to match the new behavior for the surefire plugin in SUREFIRE-1426.

This PR updates the VerifyMojo to pass a SurefireBooterForkException (deserialized from the failureMessage output to the summary XML from the IntegrationTestMojo run prior) to reportExecution so the build is terminated with a MojoExecutionException the same way as it is when tests are run by the surefire plugin (AbstractSurefireMojo).

See 6e60b0389814d8361e453092d3b18f52c3e4bcb1 for the corresponding fix for the surefire plugin (SUREFIRE-1426), that this leverages.

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br0nstein avatar Jun 07 '22 09:06 br0nstein

@olamy I updated the PR description to add some clarification. I don't think this is really the best solution but I did it this way to align with what you and @Tibor17 agreed on for surefire-1426.

I think ideally for both surefire and failsafe the build succeeds (as documented for maven.test.failure.ignore), however somewhere in ForkStarter when we see the non-zero exit code we make sure to create the TEST-*.xml file. For the case of a crash starting the JVM, from debugging I see that forkClient.hasTestsInProgress() is false. So not exactly sure what to do there - is it totally wrong to use the scanResult.classes to identify which files to create? (That said it just has simple class names.) Since these tests weren't at fault though it might make sense to create a TEST file for the running module (using groupId+artifactId)? However, for the case where a test was running that crashed the JVM, we do have the full class name in forkClient.testsInProgress()and could use that directly to create the TEST-*.xml file. I believe we do not need to populate the individual test cases in the XML - perhaps it isn't well documented but I see the Jenkins Junit plugin for one checks for the presence of an error testSuite element.

br0nstein avatar Jun 08 '22 20:06 br0nstein

@br0nstein Thx for the fix in the verifier mojo. I admit the commit 6e60b03 was not done so well. The situation with XML reports is even more complicated if you have forkCount greater than 1. Additionally, I think in Jira 1426 we touched the discussion with the non-zero exit where the exit on-jvm-startup is different situation from on-test-run-jvm. Let's continue and discuss it on tomorrow.

Tibor17 avatar Jun 10 '22 00:06 Tibor17

@Tibor17 thanks please let me know how we can go from here to get this problem fixed. Should we try to update the test to actually crash the JVM at runtime rather than cause JVM startup to fail in case that were to be caught by failsafe differently? Not sure if there are any ripe unpatched JVM bugs that we could utilize, heh.

Want to double check that we do want to pursue this approach of causing the verify phase to fail rather than treat this like non-crashing failing tests with test.failure.ignore enabled, by writing out some test result XML that Jenkins/etc could pick up to treat as "unstable."

br0nstein avatar Aug 25 '22 07:08 br0nstein