Maven reporting plugins do not execute if a unit test failure occurs

Question

None of the plugins in the reporting section of Maven execute if there is a unit test failure.

I found that I can set maven.test.failure.ignore=true here - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-247 The problem to this approach is now our hudson builds are successful even if there are unit test failures.

What I would really like to do is set the reporting plugin maven-surefire-report-plugin to run with the build plugins on a phase but I can't get this to work.

Any idea on how to get the Maven reporting plugins to execute if a unit test failure occurs?

Answer 1

In the link you posted:

With the latest version (2.1.2), I get a message saying that "There are some test failure," but I get no reports anywhere whether or not I specify that variable, or whether or not I specify "testFailureIgnore" in the plugin config. I got the reports fine with 2.0, but not with 2.1.2.

Do you need version 2,1 or can you work with a 2.0 version of Maven?

Answer 2

The error you see with 2.1.2 is because of forkmode settings which you need to perform in the plugin.

set forkmode=never and try it (I susppect there might problem in your useSystemclassloader property).

Otherwise make use of maven-surefire plugin version 2.5 which should definitel work and generate surefire rpeorts even though few test fails.

Answer 3

Please make use of surefire-report:report-only plugin if the reports are already generated after execution.