[SUREFIRE-1164] surefire-reports folder missing when there are no unit tests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.12.4
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin, Maven Surefire Report Plugin
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Rebecca Hilton
• Created: 29/Jun/15 12:34
• Updated: 03/Jul/15 21:20
• Resolved: 03/Jul/15 21:20

Description

When using the maven plugin (maven-surefire-plugin) on version 2.12 the "surefire-reports" folder gets created whether or not they have unit tests. When using 2.14.4 the folder doesn't get created unless there are unit tests.

maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:
[INFO] — maven-surefire-plugin:2.12:test (default-test) @ xxx —
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] Surefire report directory: e:\...\target\surefire-reports
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T E S T S
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Results :
Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:
[INFO] — maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ xxx —
[INFO] No tests to run.