I&#39;m using Jenkins, Maven 3.1, and Java 1.6.  I have the following Maven job set up in Jenkins with the following goals and options ...

    clean install -U -P cloudbees -P qa

below is my pom.xml surefire configuration ...

    &lt;plugin&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-surefire-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;2.17&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;configuration&gt;
                    &lt;reuseForks&gt;true&lt;/reuseForks&gt;
                    &lt;argLine&gt;-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M &lt;/argLine&gt;
                    &lt;skipTests&gt;false&lt;/skipTests&gt;
            &lt;/configuration&gt;
    &lt;/plugin&gt;

However, when my unit tests fail, the Jenkins console output still says &quot;BUILD SUCCESS&quot; and the build is marked as &quot;unstable&quot; instead of outright failing.  How do I configure things in Jenkins (or Maven if taht&#39;s what it turns out to be) so that my build fails (not becomes unstable or passes) if any of the unit tests fail?

Below is what the console output says

	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testRecoverFromError &#187; IllegalState Failed to...
	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testVerifyDistrictListPopulated &#187; IllegalState
	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testUpdateSchool &#187; IllegalState Failed to loa...
	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testDeleteSchool &#187; IllegalState Failed to loa...
	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testVerifyOrgListPopulatedPrivateSchoolOrgType &#187; IllegalState
	17:08:04   MyProjectOrganizationControllerTest.testSubmitMultipleParams &#187; IllegalState Faile...
	17:08:04 
	17:08:04 Tests run: 155, Failures: 0, Errors: 154, Skipped: 1
	17:08:04 
	17:08:04 [ERROR] There are test failures.
	17:08:04 
	17:08:04 Please refer to /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.
	17:08:04 [JENKINS] Recording test results
	17:08:07 log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.beanutils.converters.BooleanConverter).
	17:08:07 log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
	17:08:14 [INFO] 
	17:08:14 [INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.4:war (default-war) @ MyProject ---
	17:08:15 [INFO] Packaging webapp
	17:08:15 [INFO] Assembling webapp [MyProject] in [/scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/MyProject]
	17:08:15 [INFO] Processing war project
	17:08:15 [INFO] Copying webapp resources [/scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/src/main/webapp]
	17:08:15 [INFO] Webapp assembled in [662 msecs]
	17:08:15 [INFO] Building war: /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/MyProject.war
	17:08:20 [INFO] 
	17:08:20 [INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:integration-test (default) @ MyProject ---
	17:08:20 [JENKINS] Recording test results
	17:08:25 [INFO] 
	17:08:25 [INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:verify (default) @ MyProject ---
	17:08:25 [INFO] Failsafe report directory: /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/failsafe-reports
	17:08:25 [JENKINS] Recording test results[INFO] 
	17:08:25 [INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) @ MyProject ---
	17:08:25 
	17:08:25 [INFO] Installing /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/MyProject.war to /home/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/mainco/subco/MyProject/76.0.0-SNAPSHOT/MyProject-76.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war
	17:08:25 [INFO] Installing /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/pom.xml to /home/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/mainco/subco/MyProject/76.0.0-SNAPSHOT/MyProject-76.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
	17:08:26 Started calculate disk usage of build
	17:08:26 Finished Calculation of disk usage of build in 0 seconds
	17:08:26 Started calculate disk usage of workspace
	17:08:26 Finished Calculation of disk usage of workspace in 0 seconds
	17:08:26 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	17:08:26 [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
	17:08:26 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	17:08:26 [INFO] Total time: 11:00.616s
	17:08:26 [INFO] Finished at: Mon Feb 23 17:08:26 UTC 2015
	17:08:27 [INFO] Final Memory: 90M/414M
	17:08:27 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	17:08:27 Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data
	17:08:28 [JENKINS] Archiving /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/pom.xml to org.mainco.subco/MyProject/76.0.0-SNAPSHOT/MyProject-76.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
	17:08:28 [JENKINS] Archiving /scratch/jenkins/workspace/MyProject/MyProject/target/MyProject.war to org.mainco.subco/MyProject/76.0.0-	SNAPSHOT/MyProject-76.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war
	17:08:31 channel stopped
	17:08:31 Started calculate disk usage of build
	17:08:31 Finished Calculation of disk usage of build in 0 seconds
	17:08:31 Started calculate disk usage of workspace
	17:08:31 Finished Calculation of disk usage of workspace in 0 seconds
	17:08:31 Finished: UNSTABLE


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