private final AtomicReference<Throwable> threadFailure = new AtomicReference<>(null);

  /**
   * Records an exception so that it can be rethrown later in the test harness thread, triggering a
   * test case failure. Only the first failure is recorded; subsequent calls to this method from
   * within the same test have no effect.
   */
  public void threadRecordFailure(Throwable t) {

* Execution model
* Metadata model
* Metadata tooling
 ** Metadata extractor
 ** Metadata reader
 ** Metadata writer
 ** Metadata adapter (if required for the target system)
* Maven packaging and lifecycle
* Maven test harness for plugin execution model
* Eclipse IDE tooling for plugin execution model and metadata model

- we also seem to have information like the plugin lifecycle model that's buried inside the maven execution model

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing
- Fixing a bug that was preventing updates from 1.10 to 1.11