Generating unit test reports for a site

When we have unit tests for our project, it will be good to see the test reports in the site documentation. Let us see how to do this.

How to do it...

Use the following steps to generate unit test reports for a site:

1. Open the Maven project for which you want to generate the site documentation (for instance, project-with-documentation).

2. Add the following code in the reporting section of the pom.xml file:

   <plugin>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>2.18</version>
   </plugin>

3. Run the following command:

   mvn site
   

4. Observe the generated site report:

   

How it works...

If you recall, we use the Maven Surefire plugin to run tests. Surefire provides a Surefire Report plugin. When this plugin is added to the reporting section of the pom.xml file, it includes the test report in the site documentation.

The reports are identical, irrespective of whether...