Can we please have this one reopened? First of all, it's not true that JUnit 4 does not distinguish between failure and errors any more. See the how-to at [1] (which is linked form the official JUnit site at [2]) for details. Secondly, reporting errors as failures masks the real problem, and thus is bad practice. For example, a native crash in a third-party library that is called via JNI results in the test suite / VM to crash. This is reported as an error by JUnit, but as a failure by Jenkins, which makes it really hard to discover at the first glance.

[1] http://pub.admc.com/howtos/junit4x/methods-chapt.html#N10201
[2] http://www.junit.org/node/507

Change By: Sebastian Schuberth (17/Sep/12 10:07 AM)
Resolution: Won't Fix
Status: Closed Reopened
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