Need ability to remove/truncate failure messages from command-line test results
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Key: SUREFIRE-734
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-734
Project: Maven Surefire
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Maven Surefire Plugin
Affects Versions: 2.8
Reporter: aaron pieper
Priority: Minor
The 2.8 version of the maven-surefire-plugin has changed the way test summaries
are formatted at the command line. The summaries now include the failure
message for each failing test. In some cases, this failure message corresponds
to an exception message from a framework like Spring, which can be over 1000
characters long, as it includes details like which XML file was being read,
which bean was being loaded, what the bean's type was, and so on. Including
this failure message in the test summary obscures the method/class names,
making the summary difficult to read.
There are a few ways to potentially fix this problem in the
maven-surefire-plugin:
A) Add a special-case so that spring messages are truncated from the end of the
first line
B) Provide a configuration option, something like "maxFailureMessageLength=40"
so that users could decide how long they want failure messages to be
C) Provide a configuration option, something like
"includeFailureMessages=false" so that users could omit failure messages
D) Truncate all messages to a fixed amount
E) Revert to the 2.7 behavior of always omitting failure messages
Personally I like C and E the best but all of these ideas have pros and cons;
I'm sure other people will have their own opinions/ideas for addressing this.
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