I need to configure the PMD maven plugin to scan test source code with less strict checks comparing to production code.
Is there a way to do it?
You'll probably need to configure two separate executions for the plugin. This allows you to use different configurations. Once execution checks only production code (<includeTests>false</includeTests>) and the other checks test-code only (<includeTests>true</includeTests> and <excludeRoots><excludeRoot>${basedir}/src/main/java</excludeRoot></excludeRoots>).
If you share your solution, we can add it as an example on https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/
Another way to do it is to use the same code quality rules for all your code, avoiding to make compromises because it's "just test code". While test code doesn't run in production, it's used to test production code, so you might consider the test code then as your weakest link if you use less strict checks...
Here's the complete plugin configuration for this scenario:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-pmd-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.14.0</version>
<configuration>
<includeTests>false</includeTests>
<rulesets>
<ruleset>config/pmd/pmdMain.xml</ruleset>
</rulesets>
<linkXRef>false</linkXRef>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>pmd-main</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>pmd-test</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>pmd</goal>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<targetDirectory>${project.build.directory}/pmdTest/</targetDirectory>
<includeTests>true</includeTests>
<excludeRoots>
<excludeRoot>${basedir}/src/main/java</excludeRoot>
</excludeRoots>
<rulesets>
<ruleset>config/pmd/pmdTest.xml</ruleset>
</rulesets>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>cpd</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>cpd-check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
It uses the ruleset config/pmd/pmdMain.xml for the main code without tests. This is configured directly at the plugin level.
The ruleset config/pmd/pmdTest.xml is used for the test code only. This is configured in the execution with id pmd-test.
It has one downside though: PMD is run three times.... twice for the main code, and once for the test code. The reason is that "pmd:check" triggers automatically "pmd:pmd", but it uses only the standard configuration (e.g. ignored the lifecycle/execution id).
The execution "pmd-test" calls once "pmd:pmd" for the test code (which creates target/pmdTest/pmd.xml), then calls pmd:check - which itself calls pmd:pmd and uses the default configuration - and then runs pmd:check actually, which uses the execution configuration and uses target/pmdTest/pmd.xml to decide whether to fail the build.
I'm currently evaluating Sonarqube 6.3 (a big upgrade from my current 5.5 instance) and I'm getting confused trying to work out the functionality of the sonar.test.exclusions setting.
There's this question: Sonar Maven Plugin: How do I exclude test source directories? which seems to indicate that it is used to exclude test files from analysis (which is what I'm after - I don't want my sonar ruleset run over my unit tests). The documentation https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Narrowing+the+Focus also indicates that it is used to 'exclude unit test files' (perhaps this can be expanded upon to make it clearer?)
Thing is, when I add sonar.test.exclusions with a value of **/src/test/** and then run my analysis, I'm still getting code smells and the like being found for:
Foo/src/test/java/foo/bar/BarTest.java
Foo/src/test/java/lah/LahTest.java
etc.
When I use sonar.exclusions instead, they don't show up. Why is sonar.test.exclusions not doing what I expect?
First of all: if you have a Maven project, you should use the scanner for Maven (mvn sonar:sonar). It will simplify your configuration, and will automatically register src/test/java folder as a test directory.
Now if you want to do the configuration manually, or understand what is going on under the hood, here is the explanation: SonarQube scanner work with 2 sets of files, main and test. Main source files are configured using the property sonar.sources. Test source files are configured using sonar.tests.
On top of that, you can filter some content using the sonar.[test.]exclusions properties.
In you case your problem is that Foo/src/test/java/foo/bar/BarTest.java seems to be considered as a main source file. That's why sonar.test.exclusions has no effect.
Using maven with verfication goal (mvn clean verify sonar:sonar install), I have used this configuration without problems:
...
<properties>
....
<sonar.exclusions>
**/generated/**/*,
**/model/**/*
</sonar.exclusions>
<sonar.test.exclusions>
src/test/**/*
</sonar.test.exclusions>
....
<sonar.java.coveragePlugin>jacoco</sonar.java.coveragePlugin>
<sonar.jacoco.reportPath>${project.basedir}/../target/jacoco.exec</sonar.jacoco.reportPath>
<sonar.coverage.exclusions>
**/generated/**/*,
**/model/**/*
</sonar.coverage.exclusions>
<jacoco.version>0.7.5.201505241946</jacoco.version>
....
</properties>
....
Coverage exclusion configuration, inside properties (up) and jacoco plugin configuracion:
.....
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>report</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>post-unit-test</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<dataFile>target/jacoco.exec</dataFile>
<outputDirectory>target/jacoco-ut</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<systemPropertyVariables>
<jacoco-agent.destfile>target/jacoco.exec</jacoco-agent.destfile>
</systemPropertyVariables>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
....
There are two goals bound to the test phase of default Maven lifecycle. The first goal (in the order of appearance in the pom.xml) is:
<artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.4.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>update</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>update</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
and the second is:
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-test</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
During the test phase, the surefire plugin is executed first, which contradicts with the Maven 3 FIFO ordering of goals in the same phase. I verified that the goals have the same order in the effective pom. Is it possible that one of the plugins is overriding the default order? Why is the surefire plugin executed before the liquibase one?
You are right that Maven executes the goals in the order as they are defined in the POM but in this special case, you used the default-test identifier for the second execution, which has a special meaning.
I can't find any reference about this behaviour right now but changing your <id> to something else will restore the behaviour you expect.
However, for this special case again, changing the id will make the maven-surefire-plugin execute twice: it is already executed by default and adding an execution (with an id different than default-test) will add another instead of overriding the default one.
I'm using Maven 3.0.3, JUnit 4.8.1, and Jacoco 0.6.3.201306030806, and I am trying to create test coverage reports.
I have a project with unit tests only, but I can't get reports to run, I'm repeatedly getting the error: Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file when I run:
mvn clean install -P test-coverage
Here is how my pom is configured:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.14.1</version>
<configuration>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<argLine>-Xmx2048m</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.14.1</version>
<configuration>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<argLine>-Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M ${itCoverageAgent}</argLine>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
<profile>
<id>test-coverage</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.6.3.201306030806</version>
<configuration>
<destfile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</destfile>
<datafile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</datafile>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>prepare-unit-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<!-- prepare agent for measuring integration tests -->
<execution>
<id>prepare-integration-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<propertyName>itCoverageAgent</propertyName>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-site</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
All my tests run successfully. Here is some of the output from Maven:
[INFO] --- jacoco-maven-plugin:0.6.2.201302030002:prepare-agent (prepare-unit-tests) # myproject ---
[INFO] argLine set to -javaagent:/Users/davea/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.6.2.201302030002/org.jacoco.agent-0.6.2.201302030002-runtime.jar=destfile=/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/jacoco.exec
[INFO]
...
Tests run: 14, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO]
...
[INFO]
[INFO] --- jacoco-maven-plugin:0.6.2.201302030002:prepare-agent (prepare-integration-tests) # myproject ---
[INFO] itCoverageAgent set to -javaagent:/Users/davea/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.6.2.201302030002/org.jacoco.agent-0.6.2.201302030002-runtime.jar=destfile=/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/jacoco.exec
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.14.1:integration-test (default) # myproject ---
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding MacRoman, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.14.1:verify (default) # myproject ---
[INFO] Failsafe report directory: /Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/failsafe-reports
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding MacRoman, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO]
[INFO] --- jacoco-maven-plugin:0.6.2.201302030002:report (jacoco-site) # myproject ---
[INFO] Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file
[INFO]
Any ideas what configuration I'm missing?
jacoco-maven-plugin:0.7.10-SNAPSHOT
From jacoco:prepare-agent that says:
One of the ways to do this in case of maven-surefire-plugin - is to
use syntax for late property evaluation:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<argLine>#{argLine} -your -extra -arguments</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Note the #{argLine} that's added to -your -extra -arguments.
Thanks Slava Semushin for noticing the change and reporting in the comment.
jacoco-maven-plugin:0.7.2-SNAPSHOT
Following jacoco:prepare-agent that says:
[org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin:0.7.2-SNAPSHOT:prepare-agent] Prepares a property pointing to the JaCoCo runtime agent that can be
passed as a VM argument to the application under test. Depending on
the project packaging type by default a property with the following
name is set:
tycho.testArgLine for packaging type eclipse-test-plugin and
argLine otherwise.
Note that these properties must not be overwritten by the
test configuration, otherwise the JaCoCo agent cannot be attached. If
you need custom parameters please append them. For example:
<argLine>${argLine} -your -extra -arguments</argLine>
Resulting
coverage information is collected during execution and by default
written to a file when the process terminates.
you should change the following line in maven-surefire-plugin plugin configuration from (note the ${argLine} inside <argLine>):
<argLine>-Xmx2048m</argLine>
to
<argLine>${argLine} -Xmx2048m</argLine>
Make also the necessary changes to the other plugin maven-failsafe-plugin and replace the following (again, notice the ${argLine}):
<argLine>-Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M ${itCoverageAgent}</argLine>
to
<argLine>${argLine} -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M ${itCoverageAgent}</argLine>
I faced a bit of a different issue that returned the same error.
Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data /target/jacoco.exec
The truth is, this error is returned for many, many reasons.
We experimented with the different solutions on Stack Overflow, but found this resource to be best. It tears down the many different potential reasons why Jacoco could be returning the same error.
For us, the solution was to add a prepare-agent to the configuration.
<execution>
<id>default-prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
I would imagine most users will be experiencing it for different reasons, so take a look at the aforementioned resource!
One can also get "Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file" error due to missing tests in project. For example when you fire up new project and have no *Test.java files at all.
There might a case where some other argline setup or plugin in pom may be overriding jacoco execution order setup.
argLine set to -javaagent:/Users/davea/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.6.2.201302030002/org.jacoco.agent-0.6.2.201302030002-runtime.jar=destfile=/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/jacoco.exec
One of the example
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.16</version>
<configuration>
<forkCount>5</forkCount>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<argLine>-Dnet.sf.ehcache.disabled=true</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
After getting rid of argLine from these plugins, jacoco started to work normally.
I know this question is pretty old but if someone like me comes here looking for an answer then this might help. I have been able to overcome the above error with this.
1) Remove the below piece of code from the plugin maven-surefire-plugin
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<argLine>-Xmx2048m</argLine>
2) Add the below goal:
<execution>
<id>default-prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
I've tried all answers but only the following combination of advice has worked for me. Why? I had very specific requirements:
JaCoCo generates report when build is run from command line: mvn clean verify (Maven 3.6.0)
Intellij IDEA (2019.01) runs my tests as well
It all works in presence of another javaagent defined in surefire plugin
Solution - prepend argLine value in surefire configuration with "late replacement" maven property #{...} as explained in surefire FAQ (my fixed configuration)
How do I use properties set by other plugins in argLine?
Maven does property replacement for
${...}
values in pom.xml before any plugin is run. So Surefire would never see the place-holders in its argLine property.
Since the Version 2.17 using an alternate syntax for these properties,
#{...}
allows late replacement of properties when the plugin is executed, so properties that have been modified by other plugins will be picked up correctly.
Failed first try - define jaCoCoArgLine property in prepare-agent goal configuration of jacoco - the scenario failed my second requirement, IntelliJ IDEA couldn't figure out agent for jmockit I use in the project for static method mocking
When using the maven-surefire-plugin or maven-failsafe-plugin you must not use a forkCount of 0 or set the forkMode to never as this would prevent the execution of the tests with the javaagent set and no coverage would be recorded.
ref: https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/maven.html
this is my gist
I was having the same issue. I updated the Jacoco version from 0.6 to 0.8 and updated surefire plugin as well. The following command generated Jacoco reports in site/jacoco/ folder:
mvn clean jacoco:prepare-agent install jacoco:report
My maven configurations are as follows:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-report</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-check</id>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<rules>
<rule>
<element>PACKAGE</element>
<limits>
<limit>
<counter>LINE</counter>
<value>COVEREDRATIO</value>
<minimum>0.0</minimum>
</limit>
</limits>
</rule>
</rules>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M5</version>
<configuration>
<forkedProcessExitTimeoutInSeconds>60</forkedProcessExitTimeoutInSeconds>
<forkCount>1</forkCount>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Came accross the same problem just now.
I have a class named HelloWorld, and I created a test class for it named HelloWorldTests, then I got the output Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file.
I then tried to change my pom.xml to make it work, but the attempt failed.
Finally, I simply rename HelloWorldTests to HelloWorldTest, and it worked!
So I guess that, by default, jacoco only recognizes test class named like XxxTest, which indicates that it's the test class for Xxx. So simply rename your test classes to this format should work!
FWhat tdrury said:
change your plugin configuration into this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.6.3.201306030806</version>
<executions>
<!-- prepare agent for measuring integration tests -->
<execution>
<id>prepare-integration-tests</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<destFile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</destFile>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-site</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<dataFile>${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec</dataFile>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Edit:
Just noticed one important thing, destFile and dataFile seems case sensitive so it's supposed to be destFile, not destfile.
I struggled for days. I tried all the different configurations suggested in this thread. None of them works. Finally, I find only the important configuration is the prepare-agent goal. But you have to put it in the right phase. I saw so many examples put it in the "pre-integration-test", that's a misleading, as it will only be executed after unit test. So the unit test won't be instrumented.
The right config should just use the default phase, (don't specify the phase explicitly). And usually, you don't need to mass around maven-surefire-plugin.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-site</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Try to use:
mvn jacoco:report -debug
to see the details about your reporting process.
I configured my jacoco like this:
<configuration>
<dataFile>~/jacoco.exec</dataFile>
<outputDirectory>~/jacoco</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
Then mvn jacoco:report -debug shows it using the default configuration, which means jacoco.exec is not in ~/jacoco.exec. The error says missing execution data file.
So just use the default configuration:
<execution>
<id>default-report</id>
<goals>
</goals>
<configuration>
<dataFile>${project.build.directory}/jacoco.exec</dataFile>
<outputDirectory>${project.reporting.outputDirectory}/jacoco</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
And everything works fine.
I know this is late, but just for anyone else who has this issue and nothing seems to fix it (like I had). Make sure that in you pom, your configuration for jacoco inside plugins is not in turn inside pluginManagement. It seems some sort of default for maven is to put the plugins inside pluginManagement. This is almost unnoticeable until you try to add detailed configurations like for jacoco. In order to add these, you need to add them outside of the pluginManagement, otherwise they are effectively ignored. See my poms below for details.
My old pom (that gave the "Skipping jacoco ..." message):
<project>
...
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>default-report</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
My new pom (that now compiles a working jacoco report):
<project>
...
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.2</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-prepare-agent</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>default-report</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
It happens if the path of your project has blank spaces anywhere, such as:
/home/user/my projects/awesome project
the report is not generated. If that is the case, remove those spaces from directory names, such as:
/home/user/my-projects/awesome-project
or move the project to a directory that doesn't have spaces along the way.
About the plugin configuration, I just needed the basic as below:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-initialize</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-report</id>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Jacoco Execution data file is a jacoco.exec file which is generated when prepare agent goal is running. When It isn't generated or the correct path isn't set in configuration, you will get that error message. Because Jacoco use It to build test coverage. This usually occur when you use jacoco maven plugin and surfire or failsafe. To ensure that the jacoco.exec file is generated, you have to add argline in you pom.xml file, not in the surfire configuration but inside a properties tag in you pom.xml file.
<properties>
<argLine>-Xmx2048m</argLine>
</properties>
The execution says it's putting the jacoco data in /Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/jacoco.exec but your maven configuration is looking for the data in ${basedir}/target/coverage-reports/jacoco-unit.exec.
I have added a Maven/Java project with 1 Domain class with the following features:
Unit or Integration testing with the plugins Surefire and Failsafe.
Findbugs.
Test coverage via Jacoco.
Where are the Jacoco results? After testing and running 'mvn clean', you can find the results in 'target/site/jacoco/index.html'. Open this file in the browser.
Enjoy!
I tried to keep the project as simple as possible. The project puts many suggestions from these posts together in an example project. Thank you, contributors!
My response is very late but for others users
In your case you have to configure failsafe pluging to use the command line agent configuration saved in itCoverageAgent variable.
For exemple
<configuration>
<argLine>${itCoverageAgent}</argLine>
</configuration>
In your maven configuration, jacoco prepare the command line arguments in prepare-agent phase, but failsafe plugin doesn't use it so there is no execution data file.
Sometimes the execution runs first time, and when we do maven clean install it doesn't generate after that.
The issue was using true for skipMain and skip properties
under maven-compiler-plugin of the main pom File.
Remove them if they were introduced as a part of any issue or suggestion.
In my case, the prepare agent had a different destFile in configuration, but accordingly the report had to be configured with a dataFile, but this configuration was missing. Once the dataFile was added, it started working fine.
I faced similar error because tests execution were skipped.
I ran my build with similar system parameter : -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true
Turning this system parameter to false solved the issue.
I just removed following two lines from properties tag
<jacoco.ut.reportPath>${project.basedir}/../target/jacoco.exec</jacoco.ut.reportPath>
<sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>${project.basedir}/target/jacoco.exec</sonar.jacoco.reportPaths>
mvn install -Psonar by default creates jacoco.exec in target directory, so explicit path was not needed in my case.
For others that met similar problem, here is another possible solution:
Our project was running in a Traditional Chinese version of Windows, and when we checked prepare-agent section in maven log, we found that it tried to read the project folder which we put on desktop, through \桌面\...\project\... instead of \Desktop\...\project\.... I think UTF-8 symbol in paths make Jacoco go weird. We moved the project into other place and the issue was fixed.
TL;DR:
Check prepare-agent logs too as jacoco.exec was prepared during that.
2 Other Possibilities
JaCoCo's Maven plugin could be better integrated with Maven to provide more information about it's invocation and incorrect invocations. Nonetheless.
Possibility #1: Custom Arguments In Surefire plugin
Using JPMS module for my project with standard Maven directory layout, basic JSE 11 program, JUnit 5 & JaCoCo, with Eclipse and single module-info.java file (Eclipse 4.13 won't allow 2 module-info.java files in the project's root of the classpath). In order for Surefire to see my test cases I had to use the single <argLine> tag to allow Surefire to gain access using: --add-opens for all of the packages having unit tests:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.2</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>
#{argLine}
--add-opens module_name/com.myco.project=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens module_name/com.myco.project.more=ALL-UNNAMED
--add-opens module_name/com.myco.project.others=ALL-UNNAMED
</argline>
</configuration>
...
</plugin>
According to Jacoco documentation, you have to directly pass the Jacoco arguments to Surefire since specifying any Surefire arguments using <argLine> overrides Jacoco's defaults. Jacoco's online Maven documentation specifies using #{argLine} to pass Jacoco's arguments to Surefire (https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/prepare-agent-mojo.html).
Possibility #2: Intermingling Plugins
I also use the maven-javadoc plugin in my <reporting/> section. Incidentally, during the Javadoc reporting phase, it manages to invoke the prepare-agent goal of JaCoCo and gives the OP's error message shortly thereafter (according to maven debug, specifically while the maven-project-info-reports-plugin is configuring the reports to begin generating for maven site) - this despite the fact that my Test phase has already run and dumped a proper jacoco.exec file in the build output directory. It may be safe to ignore this warning, my JaCoCo report renders fine in my Maven Site. However, if you're seeing it during the execution of a JaCoCo goal, it probably shouldn't be ignored.
Tips
If you're having doubts about the file getting created, watch the directory where the file is supposed to appear during the build. Generating the file is a fairly slow process. See my other answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75465187/2336934
Do your best to keep to all the defaults as much as possible, simpler is better.
Can the Maven Sortpom Plugin affect the result of a project's build ?
Is it possible to have a project build fail just because the sortpom plugin was added ?
Normally the order of the elements in a pom.xml file does not matter, so reordering elements should not affect the build.
But I know of two exceptions to this rule:
Maven reads dependencies according to the order in the pom-file when compiling. Rearranging that order may affect the compilation output.
If two plugins executes in the same phase, the order in pom-file will determine which plugin to execute first. Sorting the plugins may cause the compilation to fail if the result of one plugin is dependent on another.
The sortpom plugin does not sort either dependencies nor plugins by default. So I would say that the sortpom plugin should not affect the result of a projects build.
It can fail a build:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.google.code.sortpom:maven-sortpom-plugin:2.3.0:sort (default) on project data-extractor: scm.team.company.corp: Unknown host scm.team-project.company.corp -> [Help 1]
The if the file isn't found due to network problems, even when running with -o
Yes.
For example, you use:
org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin's reserve-network-port goal in phase pre-integration-test
org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin's run goal also in phase pre-integration-test
Now, sortpom:sort orders them around, and in maven-3, the order of the plugins are important. So if you configure a random port for tomcat through the portName feature of reserve-network-port, the system property won't be filled (at the point it is needed), as after the sort, the build-helper artifact is executed AFTER the run goal is invoked.
Example after a sorting:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<fork>true</fork>
</configuration>
</execution>
<!-- ... -->
</executions>
<configuration>
<fork>true</fork>
<port>${tomcat.http.port}</port><!-- Oops, not set (yet)! -->
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- ... -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${build-helper.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>reserve-tomcat-port</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>reserve-network-port</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<portNames>
<portName>tomcat.http.port</portName><!-- Too late -->
</portNames>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>