I altered WebTest so that it would set a property with the failure message when a test failed, but still continue on with the ant build. This was because I had tasks I *always* wanted to run after the tests--the "finally" behavior you allude to. Using this failure property, I can perform my cleanup tasks (other ant tasks) and then determine afterward whether a test has failed.

I added this code to com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestSpecificationTask.execute()

. String failure = PlainTextReporter.getBuildFailMessage(webTestResult); . if ((webTestResult.isError() || webTestResult.isFailure()) . && fConfig.getFailureProperty() != null) { . project.setProperty(fConfig.getFailureProperty(), failure); . }

and this code to com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration

. private String fFailureProperty; . public String getFailureProperty() { return fFailureProperty; } . public void setFailureProperty(String propertyName) { . fFailureProperty = propertyName; . }