Surefire Plugin fails to handle exception thrown from TestNG @BeforeTest method -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MSUREFIRE-165 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSUREFIRE-165 Project: Maven 2.x Surefire Plugin Issue Type: Bug Components: TestNG support Affects Versions: 2.2, 2.3 Environment: Windows XP, JDK 1.5, Maven 2.0.4, TestNG 5.1 Reporter: Manish Shah Create a TestNG test with a method as follows: @BeforeTest public void beforeTest() { throw new RuntimeException("Simulate an exception from a beforeTest method"); } When surefire attempts to run this test, the plugin fails with the following stack trace: org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireExecutionException: null; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException: n ull java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.AbstractTextReporter.testFailed(AbstractTextReporter.java:106) at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:299) at org.apache.maven.surefire.report.ReporterManager.testFailed(ReporterManager.java:281) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGReporter.onTestFailure(TestNGReporter.java:97) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1164) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.runTestListeners(Invoker.java:1149) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.handleConfigurationFailure(Invoker.java:191) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:170) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:236) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:145) at org.testng.TestNG.createAndRunSuiteRunners(TestNG.java:901) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:863) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGExecutor.executeTestNG(TestNGExecutor.java:64) at org.apache.maven.surefire.testng.TestNGXmlTestSuite.execute(TestNGXmlTestSuite.java:75) at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:129) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:225) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:747) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira