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can a jvm test suite be set to "soft fail" meaning it passing or failing doesn't affect the result of build

Test tasks have `ignoreFailures`

<https://docs.gradle.org/current/kotlin-dsl/gradle/org.gradle.nativeplatform.test.tasks/-run-test-executable/ignore-failures.html>

It's a bit convoluted to access the task for each suite, because suites can have multiple variants (targets), but you can access the task like so:

```testing {
    suites.withType&lt;JvmTestSuite&gt;().configureEach {
        targets.configureEach {
            testTask.configure {
                ignoreFailures = true
            }
        }
    }
}```
Does that help?

probably, it'll take a me a few to try it :wink:

but yay for convolution, wonder if I should report a bug for consideration in the DSL... :confused:

It'd probably be nicer like this:

```testing {
    jvmSuites {
        ignoreFailures = true // set the default for all JVM Test tasks
        targets.main {
            testTask {
                ignoreFailures = false // override the default for target named 'main'
            }
        }
    }
}```

I'd probably want something more like this, it feels intuitive to me. I think the bug could propose both, but honestly it's as much about consideration that the use case seems to not have been thought about
```testing {
  suites {
    val jmolecules by registering(JvmTestSuite::class) {
      ignoreFailures = true
    }
  }
}```
sadly I don't think I can test this either way. Unrelated problem, for some reason my test suite which I'd think would be classpath is acting like it's using the module-path... :confused: oh well, lol