[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Issue Comment Edited: (AS7-856) Replace -DskipTests=true with -DallTests

Replace -DskipTests=true with -DallTests ---------------------------------------- Key: AS7-856 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-856 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Task Reporter: Thomas Diesler Assignee: Thomas Diesler Fix For: 7.0.0.CR1 Using skipTests as a flag has a negative side effect such that you cannot do > mvn -Dtest=SomeTestCase test in an integration module any more. Instead you have to do > mvn -DskipTests=false -Dtest=SomeTestCase test This is non-intuitive and non-standard. Instead I propose to use an alternate switch like 'allTests' to turn on profiles which run the complete set of tests. IMHO its ok to exclude entire (testsuite) modules from the build (i.e. not to compile the tests) because compilation errors show up in the IDE and Hudson anyway. I propose 1) By default, all normal modules and testsuite/smoke will be built in the standard way (i.e. failing tests will fail the build) 2) By adding -DskipTests=true tests that would normally be executed are skipped 3) By adding -DallTests all modules that contain tests will be executed. In Hudson you could add -fae which fails the build at the end - so catch all failing tests in a single run It boils down to whether you want to compile tests that you don't want to execute. IMHO that's not necessary in day to day work - Hudson can catch this.