For some reason as of today the unit tests in one of my projects are now running 3 times when i do mvn install site.
I declare the surefire plugin in my build as per normal and in my reporting as per normal so am not sure why this could be.
I also generate pmd, cobertura, findbugs and qalab reports - all that has changed is i now have cobertura working. could the cobertura reporting plugin be running the tests again separately to surefire?
When the surefire report runs (this only runs once) i am now getting a 'failure to parse file at [[snipped]]/surefire-reports/TEST-org.epo....FopTransformerTest.xml and sure enough when i look at that file it ends unexpectedly at <property value=" on line 4
but
if i mvn clean then mvn install, the tests run once and the xml file is okay. if i then as a separate task run mvn site the tests still appear to run 3 times but the xml file remains uncorrupted.
so my questions.
1) why does surefire run the tests more than once. surely the report should just take the results of the run from the build phase.
2) why does it make a difference if i run mvn clean install site vs mvn clean; mvn install; mvn site as three separate commands
3) is the interaction between the various common plugins documented anywhere? for example cobertura is smart enough to tell surefire to run the tests against the instrumented classes behind the scenes, but this is not documented anywhere that I have seen. what other side effects might it have?
Kind regards,
Dave Sag
