diff --git a/COMPILING.txt b/COMPILING.txt
index 348dae0f..f5d7e795 100644
--- a/COMPILING.txt
+++ b/COMPILING.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,16 @@ parameter for all the test tasks except +kerberizedTest+:
 ./gradlew -DforkEvery.default=30 test
 ----
 
+The https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.html#org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test:ignoreFailures[ignoreFailures]
+parameter of the Gradle test tasks is set to +false+ which means that if a Gradle test task fails the gradle
+process returns with non-zero. In some CI tools (e.g. Jenkins) this will make the status of the job red and not yellow
+which usually means some more serious issue than a test failure. To change this behavior you can use the
++-DignoreTestFailures+ property to set the +ignoreFailures+ parameter for all the test tasks:
+
+----
+./gradlew -DignoreTestFailures=true test
+----
+
 === Third party tests
 
 ==== Installing the necessary databases
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index c7372e83..f0beec99 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ configurations.all {
 
 def sqoopThirdPartyLib = System.getProperty("sqoop.thirdparty.lib.dir")
 def forkEveryDefault = Integer.valueOf(System.getProperty("forkEvery.default", "0"))
+def ignoreTestFailures = Boolean.getBoolean("ignoreTestFailures")
 
 dependencies {
     if (sqoopThirdPartyLib != null) runtime fileTree(dir: sqoopThirdPartyLib, include: '*.jar')
@@ -352,6 +353,7 @@ tasks.withType(Test) {
     }
 
     forkEvery forkEveryDefault
+    ignoreFailures ignoreTestFailures
 }
 
 task kerberizedTest (type: Test){
@@ -366,6 +368,7 @@ task kerberizedTest (type: Test){
         includeCategories 'org.apache.sqoop.testcategories.KerberizedTest'
     }
     forkEvery 1
+    ignoreFailures ignoreTestFailures
 }
 
 test.finalizedBy(kerberizedTest)