When my testng test fails, I'm getting the following non-specific error message:

java.lang.Exception: failures: 1
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.TestNGAction$TestNGRunner.main(TestNGAction.java:223)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.TestNGAction$TestNGRunner.main(TestNGAction.java:184)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:520)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:110)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:747)

JavaTest Message: Test threw exception: java.lang.Exception: failures: 1
JavaTest Message: shutting down test

STATUS:Failed.`main' threw exception: java.lang.Exception: failures: 1


This very inconvenient as it is hiding the real cause of the failure. Automated tools such as Aurora won't be able to distinguish different failures because of this happening.