[SUREFIRE-483] report generation fails with NullPointerException for testng tests

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.2
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Report Plugin
• Environment: Maven version: 2.0.9; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_14-b03, mixed mode, sharing); OS Linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Heinz Stüßer
• Created: 13/Apr/08 07:33
• Updated: 13/Apr/08 10:22
• Resolved: 13/Apr/08 10:22

Description

Report generation (with mvn site) fails with a NPE for testng tests when either some of the tests fail or expected exceptions are thrown.

Stacktrace follows:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.plugins.surefire.report.ReportTestSuite.characters(ReportTestSuite.java:204)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.characters(AbstractSAXParser.java:570)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanCDATASection(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1119)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1740)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:311)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.surefire.report.ReportTestSuite.parse(ReportTestSuite.java:76)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.surefire.report.SurefireReportParser.parseXMLReportFiles(SurefireReportParser.java:76)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.surefire.report.SurefireReportGenerator.doGenerateReport(SurefireReportGenerator.java:57)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.surefire.report.SurefireReportMojo.executeReport(SurefireReportMojo.java:117)
at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:98)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.ReportDocumentRenderer.renderDocument(ReportDocumentRenderer.java:139)
at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.renderModule(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:269)
at org.apache.maven.doxia.siterenderer.DefaultSiteRenderer.render(DefaultSiteRenderer.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.renderLocale(SiteMojo.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.SiteMojo.execute(SiteMojo.java:96)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:499)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:478)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)

The attached tarball contains a small maven project with a testng test. Everything works fine if all tests succeed. If you uncomment the method testFails() in class AppTest the above exception is thrown.