jacoco-maven-plugin:0.8.7:report (report) - Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file

Question

Small question regarding a Java project with JaCoCo plugin please.

I have a very small Java project, where I write some unit test.

during the maven phase, I run mvn clean install and here is part of my POM.

   <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
                <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.8.7</version>
                <configuration>
                    <append>true</append>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>prepare-agent</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>report</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>report</goal>
                            <goal>report-aggregate</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2.2</version>
            </plugin>

I can see the unit tests being run, they all succeed, and I know there is at least some kind of coverage.

However, on my run, I am always getting:

[INFO] argLine set to -javaagent:/Users/me/.m2/repository/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.agent/0.8.7/org.jacoco.agent-0.8.7-runtime.jar=destfile=/Users/myproject/target/jacoco.exec,append=true
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- jacoco-maven-plugin:0.8.7:report (report) @ myproject ---
[INFO] Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file.

I am having a hard time understanding what am I doing wrong, and how to fix this issue.

Thank you