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?
Firstly run : mvn test OR mvn install Then, if the tests fail,please run following target to generate the reports for the test results executed above: mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true surefire-report:report
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?
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.
Please make use of surefire-report:report-only plugin if the reports are already generated after execution.
I had the same issue and it is due to a wrong call to the report plugin.
The correct execution of maven command is: mvn surefire-report:report
This will run the test phase by itself and if it fails it will generate the report anyway.
Check the documentation:
http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-report-plugin/report-mojo.html
Hope this helps!! :D