If we run a Gradle build and one of the tasks fails, the whole build stops immediately. So we have fast feedback of our build status. If we don‘t want to this and want Gradle to execute all tasks, even though some might have failed, we use the command line option --continue. When we use the --continue command line option Gradle will execute every task where the dependent tasks are not failing. This is also useful in a multi-module project where we might want to build all projects even though some may have failing tests, so we get a complete overview of failed tests for all modules.

In the following Gradle build file we have two tasks. The task failTask throws a TaskExecutionException to purposely fail the task. The successTask will not fail:

Let‘s run both tasks from the command line and see the output:

We see the build has failed and only the task failTask is executed. Now we run the same two tasks, but we use the command line option --continue:

This time the successTask is executed even though the failTask has failed again. Gradle will keep track of all tasks that have failed and displays a summary with all the tasks that have failed.

Written with Gradle 2.2.1

Gradle Goodness: Continue Build Even with Failed Tasks