The system exits on tearDown() when there are records left in the DB. A test that does this is invalid and not allowed to enter the test suite. indeed not if the invalid test is immediately rejected If so, there should be successful hudson runs that show that. Rather the opposite is true. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4176571#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...