I might like to run testability with a "check" goal that takes the result and fails the build if certain criteria are not met in the testability results xml file.

Also, I might just want to create a report and not fail the build.

Therefore, I think it might be nice to have a couple of goals "mojos" to allow for this type of thing.

See the maven cobertura or pmd plugins for an example.

Here's another plugin that has this feature: - check goal does the good/bad check. - checkstyle goal generates report.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-checkstyle-plugin/plugin-info.html