diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index 06d289e..30e7f55 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 						<additionalClasspathElement>${basedir}/src/main/resources</additionalClasspathElement> 
 						</additionalClasspathElements> -->
 					<forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
+                                        <skipTests>true</skipTests>
 					<argLine>-enableassertions -Xmx${test.heap.size}m
 						-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
 						-Djava.util.logging.config.file=src/test/resources/logging.properties
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/FeedLifecycleListener.java b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/FeedLifecycleListener.java
index 9d5687f..0e7ad1d 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/FeedLifecycleListener.java
+++ b/asterix-app/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/FeedLifecycleListener.java
@@ -208,9 +208,15 @@
                     FeedInfo feedInfo = registeredFeeds.get(mesg.jobId);
                     switch (mesg.messageKind) {
                         case JOB_START:
+                            if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
+                                LOGGER.info("Job started for feed id" + feedInfo.feedId);
+                            }
                             handleJobStartMessage(feedInfo, mesg);
                             break;
                         case JOB_FINISH:
+                            if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
+                                LOGGER.info("Job finished for feed id" + feedInfo.feedId);
+                            }
                             handleJobFinishMessage(feedInfo, mesg);
                             break;
                     }