How to us Maven PDF Plugin to generate PDF from Surefire Report?

Question

after running my JUnit tests I use the Maven Surefire Report plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/) to generate a HTML test report. This resu

Answer 1

From the documentation of maven pdf plugin, the plugin needs a file that contains the DocumentModel of the PDF to generate. It is by default src/site/pdf.xml, which is why the plugin fails when it does not find this file.

The plugin is intended to generate the pdf version of the report generated by the maven site plugin. As such, it generates the pdf versions of all reports for the project, which would include the surefire-report, if configured.