On Thu, 7 Apr 2022 07:53:38 GMT, Christoph Langer <clan...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> In GitHub Actions the step "Check that all tests executed successfully" will 
> be marked as failing when the "Run tests" step did not run but some earlier 
> step already failed. This is irritating and it can be corrected by doing the 
> test check only if testing was not skipped.
> 
> Here is a link to such a test run where the check failed although the issue 
> was with the cygwin installation: 
> https://github.com/GoeLin/jdk11u-dev/runs/5788778433?check_suite_focus=true

Thanks, this makes sense. 

We cannot just do `continue-on-error: true` in checking step, like further test 
result packaging steps are doing, because we would lose the "error" status when 
tests *were* executed. Checking for "skipped" status caters for that case.

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Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8139

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