gradle ignoreFailures test property

Question

My build.gradle file is like the following :

apply plugin: "java"
...
test {
  ...
  ignoreFailures = "$ignoreFailureProp"
}

and a gradle.properties with

ignoreFailureProp=false

When executed gradle clean build, the unit test failures do not mark the build as failed.

I know the default behaviour is to fail the build, but I want to explicitly set it through a property, to change in without modifying the build file

Answer 1

You do not have to use a file like gradle.properties.

If you change your build.gradle to:

apply plugin: "java"
...
test {
  ...
  ignoreFailures Boolean.getBoolean("test.ignoreFailures")
}

and invoke the tests with gradle -Dtest.ignoreFailures=true clean build you are done without editing any file. Note that, if you do not set the parameter or set it to any other value than true (case in-sensitive) failures are not ignored (ie. the default behaviour).