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

[Thomas Diesler (JIRA)]

Replace -DskipTests=true with -DallTests
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                 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.



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