Bug 571 - Throwing an exception to fail the build when the outputBaseDir is null in the pom.xml

Also modifying the pom.xmls of tests to specify the outputBaseDir

Change-Id: Ic149ee6d65c225af302eba80cb1d30469a47ade5
Signed-off-by: Mayank Agarwal <mayagarw@cisco.com>
Merge "Bug 571 - Throwing an exception to fail the build when the outputBaseDir is null in the pom.xml"