Displaying custom test results in Jenkins Maven job

Question

I just added some Python unit tests to an existing Maven POM but I can't seem to get Jenkins to report the results of the tests when it runs the build.

I'm running nose tests from Maven with the exec-maven-plugin during the "test" phase. The tests run successfully from the Jenkins job and generate an xUnit compatible test report to target/surefire-reports/TEST-nosetests.xml, but Jenkins doesn't pick up on the results.

Interestingly, Maven also reports no tests run before executing the test suite:

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
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There are no tests to run.

Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] 
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.1.1:exec (nosetests) @ server ---
[INFO] ................
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Ran 16 tests in 194.799s
[INFO] 
[INFO] OK
[INFO] Registering compile source root /Volumes/Data/workspace/myProject/target
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

So is this a problem with Jenkins not seeing the results, or with Maven not treating my test suite as actual tests?

Answer 1

To build upon the answer by bpanulla, if you have tests in more than one sub-directory of your project, you can use a wildcard in the "Test report XMLs" field, such as: **/target/surefire-reports/*.xml

Answer 2

Try after adding the maven compiler plugin

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>default-testCompile</id>
                    <phase>compile</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>testCompile</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
                <useIncrementalCompilation>false</useIncrementalCompilation>
                <testSource>1.8</testSource>
                <testTarget>1.8</testTarget>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>