[jbosstools-dev] Spring Cleaning :: removal of old deprecated Ant scripts

[Nick Boldt]

If you run a job which assumes there will be junit/surefire test reports 
in the workspace after disabling the tests (-Dmaven.test.skip), the job 
will be marked as failing.

The reason this is often useful is that sometimes, we need to skip tests 
just to get all the bits to build in the stack. Often, there are 
components with long-standing test failures (looking at you, Maven, ESB, 
...) which prevent the automatic firing of downstream jobs.

So, when I'm babysitting the builds to get out a release to QE (as I 
will be this weekend), sometimes I kick jobs w/ tests disabled. The ant 
script allows the job to appear to pass even if there are no test 
results by generating a fake test results xml file which Jenkins can 
happily parse.

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Since I wrote this script, I've discovered there are other ways to link 
jobs together. We are now able to remove this in favour of just having 
upstream jobs ALWAYS fire their downstream regardless of test results 
[1]. But is that better? Comments to this jira [2].

[1] http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Parameterized+Trigger+Plugin

[2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10437

On 02/16/2012 04:27 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
> What is the feature provided by this script? In which context it applies?
> I never had trouble to integrate surefire reports in Hudson, and never
> needed a script to do so. What is the added value of this one?
>
> On 02/16/2012 06:40 AM, Nick Boldt wrote:
>> If you depend on this old Ant script [1] to generate a dummy JUnit
>> test results file in Hudson (so that should you temporarily disable
>> your tests, the job won't fail), please switch to using this new,
>> simpler one [2].
>>
>> [1] http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/build/build.xml
>>
>> [2]
>> http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/build/results/collect-test-results.xml
>>
>> The Hudson config change looks like this as a pseudo-diff:
>>
>> <hudson.tasks.Ant>
>> <targets>collect.test.results.for.hudson -q -logger
>> org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger</targets>
>> <antName>ant-1.7.x</antName>
>> - <buildFile>${WORKSPACE}/build/build.xml</buildFile>
>> +
>> <buildFile>${WORKSPACE}/build/results/collect-test-results.xml</buildFile>
>> </hudson.tasks.Ant>
>>
>> If I broke your job and you need my assistance, please post complaints
>> to this jira:
>>
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10690
>>
>> Ultimately, I'd like to remove this script entirely in favour of
>> something else (eg., maven) but for now at least the code's simpler
>> and will therefore be easier to rewrite.
>>
>
>
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