terraform test reports success when tests were skipped without notifying about that the user. This is only seen in the logs and -junit-xml file This situation can be reproduced with a read-only user. When creation of the resources in modules does not succeed all the tests are skipped (even tests such as "x"=="y") and success is reported to the end-user. repo with example here: github.com:tata2000/terraform_test_bugrepor