Gradle test shows AssertionError, but not exception message

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I am possibly doing something wrong here, but I cannot get gradle to print the actual failed assertion message given the following test:

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class TestSimple {
    @Test
    void failedAssertion() throws Throwable {
        assertEquals(0, 1.1);
    }
}

running gradle like so:

./gradlew cleanTest test --tests TestSimple.failedAssertion

produces the following result:

> Task :test FAILED

TestSimple > failedAssertion() FAILED
    org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError at TestSimple.java:8

1 test completed, 1 failed

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':test'.
> There were failing tests. See the report at: file:///Users/my.name/Code/development/project/build/reports/tests/test/index.html

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 2s
4 actionable tasks: 3 executed, 1 up-to-date

I find this very frustrating as theres about 20 lines of cruft attached to the output here, but not the actual error that matters. If I want to see it, I need to wrap this test in a try/catch and print it myself. Am I doing something dumb here?

here are the relevant bits of my gradle file:


dependencies {
    // vertx
    compile 'io.vertx:vertx-core:4.2.6'

    testCompile 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.8.2'
    testCompile 'io.vertx:vertx-junit5:4.2.6'
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()

    testLogging {
        showStandardStreams = true
    }
}

./gradlew --version output:


------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 5.0
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2018-11-26 11:48:43 UTC
Revision:     7fc6e5abf2fc5fe0824aec8a0f5462664dbcd987

Kotlin DSL:   1.0.4
Kotlin:       1.3.10
Groovy:       2.5.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.13 compiled on July 10 2018
JVM:          1.8.0_332 (Temurin 25.332-b09)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.16 x86_64
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I should add that I have also tried simply throwing a RuntimeException or an Exception to see if gradle will print the result, which gives me the same issue, no message printed.

3

Hello @andykais

not need for the exception in the test file and for the build file under testLogging add this
exceptionFormat "full"

as mentioned here

also check the the comment blow this one

hope that help and have a nice day :slight_smile:

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The exact assertion failures or errors are in the HTML report that is linked to in the output.
If you want to actually see the failures on the console, simply run with --info (or -i) and they are shown.