AIRCIListener + flexUnitTasks.jar fails on Windows

Question

When I try to run flexunit with the AIRCIListener I get:
BUILD FAILED
C:\...\build.xml:245: Error launching the test runner.
My Ant target looks like this:
<target name="test"
            depends="clean, init"
            description="Compile TestRunner.mxml as a SWF runnable by AD">
        <mxmlc file="${test.src.loc}/${test.application.name}"
            configname="air"
               output="${test.bin.loc}/${test.artifact.name}">
            <compiler.source-path path-element="${src.loc}"/>
            <compiler.source-path path-element="${test.src.loc}"/>
            <!-- The TestRunner needs the flexunit libraries in the build/libs folder -->
            <library-path dir="${build.libs.loc}"
                          append="true">
                <include name="*.swc"/>
            </library-path>
            <library-path dir="${libs.loc}"
                          append="true">
                <include name="*.swc"/>
            </library-path>
            <!-- Sets java.awt.headless=true so font compilation works in headless environments -->
            <compiler.verbose-stacktraces>true</compiler.verbose-stacktraces>
            <compiler.headless-server>true</compiler.headless-server>
        </mxmlc>
        <!-- Execute TestRunner.swf as FlexUnit tests and publish reports -->
        <flexunit player="air"
                  swf="${test.bin.loc}/${test.artifact.name}"
                  toDir="${report.loc}"
                  haltonfailure="false"
                  verbose="true"/>
        <!-- Generate readable JUnit-style reports -->
        <junitreport todir="${report.loc}">
            <fileset dir="${report.loc}">
                <include name="TEST-*.xml"/>
            </fileset>
            <report format="frames"
                    todir="${report.loc}/html"/>
        </junitreport>
    </target>
I am using RC2 downloaded here: http://github.com/flexunit/flexunit/downloads
When I try flexUnitTasks-4.1.0.jar which I got by checking out the sources from github I get:
BUILD FAILED
C:\...\build.xml:245: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: command [<testcase classname='com.myproject.desktop.model::DesktopModelTest' name='testSetServerUrl' time='0.000'  status='success'/>] not understood
I guess this is because the SWCs are RC2 and the jar is RC1.
When I try the RC1 SWCs with the RC1 flexUnitTasks.jar my runner hangs while executing async tests.
So none of the combinations worked for me. I got the RC1 running for a while but when I addded more tests I got this hanger which is not caused by failures in my tests because they run fine under Mac.
Any idea on this?
Thanks,
Sönke

Answer 1

The cool thing is that I have created a test case to re-produce the problem.
I could send you the whole project. Please drop me a mail to soenke.rohde @ googles email thing
Here in short:
The model I am testing:
package model
    import event.SomeEvent;
    import flash.events.IEventDispatcher;
    public class SomeModel
        public var dispatcher:IEventDispatcher;
        public function SomeModel()
        public function doAThing(b:Boolean):void{
            if(b){
                dispatcher.dispatchEvent(new SomeEvent(SomeEvent.FOO));
Here the test class:
package tests
    import event.SomeEvent;
    import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
    import model.SomeModel;
    import org.flexunit.async.Async;
    public class Test1
        private var _model : SomeModel;
        [Before]
        public function setUp() : void {
            _model = new SomeModel();
            _model.dispatcher = new EventDispatcher();
        [After]
        public function tearDown() : void {
            _model = null;
        [Test( async )]
        public function test1() : void {
            Async.proceedOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO);
            _model.doAThing(true);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test2() : void {
            Async.failOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO, 1 );
            _model.doAThing(false);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test3() : void {
            Async.proceedOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO);
            _model.doAThing(true);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test4() : void {
            Async.failOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO, 1 );
            _model.doAThing(false);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test5() : void {
            Async.proceedOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO);
            _model.doAThing(true);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test6() : void {
            Async.failOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO, 1 );
            _model.doAThing(false);
        [Test( async )]
        public function test7() : void {
            Async.proceedOnEvent( this, _model.dispatcher, SomeEvent.FOO);
            _model.doAThing(true);
When you delete test7 the build works. With 7 or more tests they always hang. Sounds really strange but that's what I am seeing on my machine and I can re-produce it all the time.
Thanks,
Sönke