Hi, When mauve fails to start a test which because of compilation problems, no xml output is gnenerated: $ java Harness -vm /usr/bin/java gnu.java.security.hash.TestOfHashFactory -xmlout output.xml FAIL: gnu.java.security.hash.TestOfHashFactory exception when loading: java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems: The import gnu.java cannot be resolved The import gnu.java cannot be resolved IMessageDigest cannot be resolved to a type HashFactory cannot be resolved HashFactory cannot be resolved [snip] The xml output file contains no failures: The attached patch fixes mauve so that a failure is reported in the xml file. Cheers, Omair