Question

I’m using ant to do my builds, and I’m using TestNG for testing.
Is it possible to not have the build fail whenever there is a test failure?

And, should I have a test method throw an Exception, or catch any exceptions that my be thrown in the method?

Answer 1

In case you are using junit task you can set haltonfailure property.

The quote from ant documentation:

haltonfailure – Stop the build process if a test fails (errors are
considered failures as well).

The sample:

<target name="test_skip_test">
    <echo>before test call</echo>
    <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="no">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement location="${build.tests}"/>
            <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
        </classpath>

        <test name="UnitTest1" haltonfailure="no" outfile="result">
            <formatter type="xml"/>
        </test>
    </junit>        
    <echo>after test call</echo>
</target>

Or you can use failureproperty property.

The quote from ant documentation:

failureproperty – The name of a property to set in the event of a
failure (errors are considered failures as well). Overrides value set
in <junit>.