Is there a way to set configfailurepolicy via the maven failsafe (not surefire) plugin?

[Shawn McCarthy]

I can't seem to find a way to set the configfailurepolicy in the maven pom.xml file (for the maven-failsafe-plugin). Does it make sense to have this feature for failsafe? I can attempt a pull request, if other people think it would be helpful. I want this feature in case my BeforeMethod fails, the rest of the tests that use the same BeforeMethod don't get skipped.

I saw it was added to the maven-surefire-plugin here : https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-927 , but I don't think it is added to the failsafe plugin.

Thank you.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Shawn,

I have never used this plugin but can't this just be included in your suite xml file ?

I have a whackier way of doing this which doesn't involve a change to the failsafe plugin code base :) [ yes its for sure a whackier approach ]

You could perhaps leverage the filtering option that is available in Maven wherein based on a JVM argument you could flip the value based on a JVM argument perhaps.

Your suite xml file could look like below :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
<suite name="Suite" configfailurepolicy="${policy}" data-provider-thread-count="20" group-by-instances="false"
       parallel="methods">
    <test name="Test">
        <packages>
            <package name="com.test.testng.*"/>
        </packages>
    </test>
</suite>

Your pom file's resource filtering section could look like below 

<testResources>
    <testResource>
        <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>configfailurepolicy.xml</include>
        </includes>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
    </testResource>
</testResources>

Your pom's properties section could look like below :

<properties>
    <policy>continue</policy>
</properties>

And you could execute your tests using a command as below 

 mvn clean resources:testResources test -DsuiteXmlFile=target/test-classes/configfailurepolicy.xml -Dpolicy=skip

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Shawn McCarthy]

Thank you Krishnan. I will look into your suggestions. I wanted to keep it out of the suite xml file, in case people wanted to change the thread count dynamically (without updating the code and committing it).