You should create a Jira ticket as I explained when you asked on the Maven users list.
/Anders (mobile) Den 30 jan 2014 17:15 skrev "Andrew Pennebaker" <apenneba...@42six.com>: > The online > documentation<http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/cobertura-mojo.html>for > cobertura-maven-plugin 2.6 says that "coverage.xml" is created if you > specify xml format. In reality, this only happens if you specify xml format > *and* run `mvn site`. `mvn cobertura:cobertura` never generates this file. > > Could we amend the documentation to make this more clear (or even better, > go ahead and make `mvn cobertura:cobertura` generate this file)? > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > apenneba...@42six.com >