not sure if this is by case but with java8 everything went fine while with java7 I got the following on hama-core:
Test set: org.apache.hama.bsp.TestBSPMasterGroomServer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.147 sec <<< FAILURE! testSubmitJob(org.apache.hama.bsp.TestBSPMasterGroomServer) Time elapsed: 0.015 sec <<< FAILURE! junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: null at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:47) at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:53) at org.apache.hama.bsp.TestBSPMasterGroomServer.testSubmitJob(TestBSPMasterGroomServer.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:134) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:83) at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:128) at org.junit.runners.Suite.runChild(Suite.java:24) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236) at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:157) at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:136) at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:127) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreTestSet.runJunitCore(JUnitCoreTestSet.java:208) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreTestSet.execute(JUnitCoreTestSet.java:95) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreTestSet.execute(JUnitCoreTestSet.java:82) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junitcore.JUnitCoreDirectoryTestSuite.execute(JUnitCoreDirectoryTestSuite.java:84) at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:290) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:1017) 2014-09-18 23:50 GMT+02:00 Edward J. Yoon <edwardy...@apache.org>: > Have you looked at error logs in target/surefire-reports dir? > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Andronidis Anastasios > <andronat_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to build the source code and this test is failing: > org.apache.hama.bsp.message.TestMessageIO anyone knows why? > > > > Cheers, > > Anastasis > > > > -- > Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon > CEO at DataSayer Co., Ltd. >