Question

My maven reports are working great, all except Checkstyle and test xref. My test source is still being cross referenced at xref and not the test xref. So, when I click on the xref from within a Checkstyle report, I naturally get an error, the file isn’t found. If I click on a source file, it works perfectly.

I tried testXrefLocation in the configuration to no avail. Is this by design, or am I missing a configuration?

<plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <enableRulesSummary>false</enableRulesSummary>
                    <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
                    <configLocation>${project.build.directory}/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
                    <testXrefLocation>${project.reporting.outputDirectory}/xref-test</testXrefLocation>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>


mvn clean install site

In my target directory where all this stuff is generated, I have both xref and xref-test. However, my checkstyle reports for my test source code are still linked to target/xref and not target/xref-test.

Also, FYI, I am using a lot of inheritance to reduce the amount of configuration in a single Maven POM. Therefore, this plugin belongs to a parent pom which declares which plugins I want to use for testing. I have another that says I want to generate javadoc and source in addition to the compiled code.

Walter

Answer 1

I actually ended up removing this configuration in favor of using Sonar since it gives me much more information with a nicer UI.