[jboss-as7-dev] (AS7-2796) -DskipTests argument no longer preventing the execution of tests on AS7 build

[Darran Lofthouse]

On 11/28/2011 08:18 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2011 01:35 PM, Ondřej Žižka wrote:
>> How about having two params for that, with -DskipTests for unit tests,
>> and, say, -DskipTestsuite for skipping the testsuite module's tests?
>>
> IMO, we shouldn't just be adding all these new flags which make it
> complicated to understand what set of flags to use and when. The actual
> question for this specific issue is what's the real usecase of skipping
> unit tests (which potentially can have failures) but still want to run
> the integration tests?
>
> To be clear - IMO, we should have the -DskipTests back without adding a
> new meaning to that param.

+1 - To me that parameter already had an existing meaning and that was 
to skip ALL tests.  Developing AS I can't see where I would want to be 
skipping unit tests to allow the rest of the testsuite to run.