On Aug 3, 2004, at 7:41 AM, Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
1) There is a maven build flag that lets builds complete, regardless of the tests' completion status. IMHO, if something breaks for them, then something is broken for their configuration and they should know about it; this is the raison d'etre of unit tests. People who cannot handle this should be directed to pre-built jars, though I suspect that most responsible shops will run the unit tests on their target platforms.
However, if it takes a long time, then this is a different matter; I like David Jenks' idea of running smaller, quicker, tests.
Although that is an good idea, I think the implementation is much more difficult. Until we have parameterized stress tests, I'd say the best plan is to isolate stress tests and only run them during the nightly build.
-dain
