There are some tests that excercise bad war deployment that are failing inconsistently. Two are: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4085 http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4031 In the example I looked at, jbossweb is claiming a given webapp is not available even though the server log indicates otherwise: | The test.log shows that jbossweb claims that no such webapp exists: | | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.jboss.test.util.web.HttpUtils] RequestURI: http://localhost:8080/redeploy/index.html | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection] Open connection to localhost:8080 | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] >> "GET /redeploy/index.html HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase] Adding Host request header | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] >> "User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] >> "Host: localhost:8080[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] >> "[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "HTTP/1.1 503 This application is not currently available[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "Content-Type: text/html[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "Transfer-Encoding: chunked[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:12:06 GMT[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [httpclient.wire.header] << "Connection: close[\r][\n]" | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection] Input data available | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.jboss.test.util.web.HttpUtils] responseCode=503, response=This application is not currently available | | | Even though the server.log indicates it was started: | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,750 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] starting service jboss.web.deployment:war=good-web.war,id=627826940 | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,750 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Starting jboss.web.deployment:war=good-web.war,id=627826940 | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,750 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.TomcatDeployer] webContext: /redeploy | ... | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,828 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.TomcatDeployer] Initialized: {WebApplication: /C:/svn/JBossAS/Branch_4_2/build/output/jboss-4.2.0.CR1/server/jacc/tmp/deploy/tmp44326jbosstest-good.ear-contents/good-web-exp.war/, URL: file:/C:/svn/JBossAS/Branch_4_2/build/output/jboss-4.2.0.CR1/server/jacc/tmp/deploy/tmp44326jbosstest-good.ear-contents/good-web-exp.war/, classLoader: java.net.FactoryURLClassLoader@248f34:2395956} jboss.web:j2eeType=WebModule,name=//localhost/redeploy,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,828 DEBUG [org.jboss.web.WebModule] Started jboss.web.deployment:war=good-web.war,id=627826940 | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,828 DEBUG [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] Starting dependent components for: jboss.web.deployment:war=good-web.war,id=627826940 dependent components: [] | 2007-02-08 08:12:06,843 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] End deployment start on package: good-web.war | There is no NPE in the log as Brian saw in another issue. I have had the failing test switch from testBadWarRedeploy to testBadEarRedeploy to no failure. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4013113#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...