Maven & Cucumber integration tests reporting

I have this cucumber integration testing suit for a spring-boot application, I'm trying to generate a visualization report for it and I'm not able to.

this is my folder structure

|_ src
  |_ main
  |_ test
    |_ java
      |_ common
      |_ steps
      |_ CucumberIntegrationRunnerTest.java
    |_ resources
      |_ data
        |_ [json files]
      |_ [feature files]
  |_ target

pom.xml looks like the following

<dependencies>
    <!-- cucumber for integration tests-->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>7.18.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
        <version>7.18.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-spring</artifactId>
        <version>7.18.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
        <version>5.8.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-junit-platform-engine</artifactId>
        <version>7.18.0</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
            <testFailureIgnore>true</testFailureIgnore>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*Test.java</include>
            </includes>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
        <version>5.8.1</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>execution</id>
                <phase>verify</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>generate</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                    <projectName>optumcare-individual-azure-sink</projectName>
                    <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
                    <cucumberOutput>${project.build.directory}/cucumber.json</cucumberOutput>
                    <checkBuildResult>false</checkBuildResult>
                    <jsonFiles>
                        <param>**/cucumber.json</param>
                    </jsonFiles>
                    <buildNumber>1</buildNumber>
                    <checkBuildResult>false</checkBuildResult>
                </configuration>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

my test runner configuration looking like the following

@Suite
@IncludeEngines("cucumber")
@SelectClasspathResource("cucumber/integration")
@ConfigurationParameter(key = GLUE_PROPERTY_NAME, value = "path_to_integration_folder")
@CucumberOptions(plugin = {"pretty", "json:target/cucumber.json"}, monochrome = true)
@CucumberContextConfiguration
@SpringBootTest
public class CucumberIntegrationRunnerTest { ... }

running mvn clean verify completes fine with the tests running successfully & the report html is being generated, but I'm getting a No JSON report file was found error.

I've tried multiple changes to the path inside the pom or the test running, but nothing seem to work.

not sure what am I doing wrong here... any help would be appreciated.

You are using both cucumber-junit (JUnit 4) and cucumber-junit-platform-engine (JUnit 5). Both can be used to run Cucumber, so you only need one of these.

Secondly, you are using @CucumberOptions which is how you would configure Cucumber when using JUnit 4.

But you are using a declarative suite from JUnit 5. So to configure Cucumber you should use @ConfigurationParameter(key = PLUGIN_PROPERTY_NAME, value = "pretty, json:target/cucumber.json").