Findbugs Maven plugin ignores threshold

Question

I'm using the following in my project's pom.xml file. Running a findbugs:check goal still fails on all errors, even when no High priority errors are present. What am I doing wrong?

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<executions>
  <execution>
    <id>failing-on-high</id>
    <phase>process-test-resources</phase>
    <goals>
      <goal>check</goal>
    </goals>
    <configuration>
      <threshold>High</threshold>
      <onlyAnalyze>com.example.-</onlyAnalyze>
    </configuration>
  </execution>
</executions>

Answer 1

Looking at the documentation and trying it out on a sample codebase, it looks like findbugs:check goal

Fail the build if there were any FindBugs violations in the source code.

This does not seem to depend on the value of threshold .

Also look at this blog entry which seems to describe a related problem.