Add option to silence all junit test output and rely on summary outputs for test status (#926)

Author: csutherl

BUILDING.txt

@@ -529,7 +529,16 @@ as for the property "test.name".
  This is configured by setting "test.threads" property. The recommended
  value is one thread per core.
 
- 6. Optional support is provided for the Cobertura code coverage tool.
+ 6. Test output can be suppressed for cleaner console output, especially useful
+ when running tests with multiple threads:
+
+        ant test -Dtest.silent=true
+
+ This suppresses JUnit console output while still saving all test results to
+ individual log files in output/build/logs. The test-status target will still
+ display a summary of any failures or skipped tests.
+
+ 7. Optional support is provided for the Cobertura code coverage tool.
 
 NOTE: Cobertura is licensed under GPL v2 with parts of it being under
       Apache License v1.1. See https://cobertura.github.io/cobertura/ for details.

build.properties.default

@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ test.haltonfailure=false
 test.accesslog=false
 # Display the tests output on the console
 test.verbose=true
+# Suppress JUnit console output (useful for parallel testing)
+test.silent=false
 
 # Number of parallel threads to use for testing. The recommended value is one
 # thread per core.

build.xml

@@ -1942,6 +1942,14 @@
   <property name="junit.formatter.usefile" value="true" />
   <property name="junit.formatter.extension" value=".txt" />
 
+  <!-- Configure JUnit output based on test.silent property -->
+  <condition property="junit.printsummary" value="off" else="yes">
+    <istrue value="${test.silent}"/>
+  </condition>
+  <condition property="junit.showoutput" value="false" else="${test.verbose}">
+    <istrue value="${test.silent}"/>
+  </condition>
+
   <!-- ==================== Test Profile System ==================== -->
   <!--
     Property-based test profiles for convenient, selective test execution.
@@ -2129,7 +2137,7 @@
           enabled="${test.coverage}"
           destfile="${coverage.datafile}"
           >
-        <junit printsummary="yes" fork="yes" dir="." showoutput="${test.verbose}"
+        <junit printsummary="${junit.printsummary}" fork="yes" dir="." showoutput="${junit.showoutput}"
           errorproperty="test.result.error"
           failureproperty="test.result.failure"
           haltonfailure="${test.haltonfailure}"

webapps/docs/changelog.xml

@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
       <update>
         The minimum Java version has been updated to Java 21. (markt)
       </update>
+      <add>
+        Add <code>test.silent</code> property to suppress JUnit console output
+        during test execution. Useful for cleaner console output when running
+        tests with multiple threads. (csutherl)
+      </add>
     </changelog>
   </subsection>
   <subsection name="Catalina">