title: How to merge 2 jacoco coverage reports (.exec file) irrespective of maven life cycle
body: <p>I have a jacoco plugin in my pom to get junit test coverage and I am dumping another report from a different server. How to merge these 2 jacoco coverage reports (.exec file) irrespective of maven life cycle.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;plugin&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.jacoco&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;jacoco-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.7.6.201602180812&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;executions&gt;
        &lt;execution&gt;
          &lt;goals&gt;
            &lt;goal&gt;prepare-agent&lt;/goal&gt;
          &lt;/goals&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;destFile&gt;${project.build.directory}&lt;/destFile&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;     
        &lt;/execution&gt;
      &lt;/executions&gt;        
  &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>