Github user anew commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tephra/pull/71 I had to try a few options: - -Dtest=*,!TransactionProcessorTest does not seem to work in travis (even though it worked fine on my Mac). It then skips all tests and fails because of that - so I added an extra exclude rule in the pom file - I could not figure out how to modify a single build in the matrix - excluded the regular jdk7/hbase-1.4 build, and included it with an extra test exclude All builds now pass and only the jdk7/hbase-1.4 build skips TransactionProcessorTest
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