Some of our gradle tests are not outputting any logs with testng

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Some of our test suites that we run in gradle do not output any logs that are running with testng.

This could be related to http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1252 however that was created quite a while ago.

Does anyone have any ideas why some tests eat all the log output and others log properly?

2

How exactly are you logging? How are you configuring TestNG in the build script? What happens if you run just the test whose logging isn’t shown?

3

We do our logging using log4j.

Ie Logger businessLogger = Logger.getLogger(“business”);

businessLogger.info(“Log message”)

we have this task defined in a common gradle file testable.gradle file:

task webAcceptanceTest(type: Test) {
 group = "Verification"
 description = 'Runs the web acceptance tests for this project.'
   dependsOn ':acme:core:webTestJar'
    systemProperties = System.properties
   useTestNG()
 options {
  listeners << 'org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter'
  listeners << 'org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter'
  listeners << 'au.com.acme.common.util.SeleniumTestngListener'
 }
   classpath = sourceSets.test.output + sourceSets.main.output
 classpath += configurations.testWeb
}

Then we have a closure to configure it:

webAcceptanceTest {
   jvmArgs '-XX:MaxPermSize=256m'
   dependsOn ':acme:public:war:testClasses'
 classpath += project(':acme:public:war').configurations.testCompile
 classpath += project(':acme:public:war').sourceSets.test.resources
   testClassesDir = project(':acme:public:war').sourceSets.test.output.classesDir
   options {
  includeGroups 'webacceptance'
  excludeGroups 'webacceptance.broken', 'broken'
 }
}

The main problem we see is that if we run it like normal gradle webAcceptanceTests it will generally log properly. However when we use the single test syntax ie: gradle webAcceptanceTests -DwebAcceptanceTest.single=Classname it won’t log to the stdout anymore. Parts of the logs still appear in the output html files, but anything other than what caused the test failure is lost.

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I’m surprised that you see any logging at all. Usually you have to do ‘webAcceptanceTest.testLogging.showStandardStreams = true’ to get std out displayed. Also, log4j needs to be configured to log to std out (which is probably the default if it can’t find a configuration file).

5

Ahh that was exactly the problem. It must have been working by accident before. Thanks heaps :slight_smile: