diff --git a/maven-surefire-common/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/report/StatelessXmlReporter.java b/maven-surefire-common/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/report/StatelessXmlReporter.java
index fcb066e..bfe894e 100644
--- a/maven-surefire-common/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/report/StatelessXmlReporter.java
+++ b/maven-surefire-common/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/report/StatelessXmlReporter.java
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
     }
 
     private void serializeTestClass( OutputStream outputStream, OutputStreamWriter fw, XMLWriter ppw,
-                                     List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries )
+                                     List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries ) throws IOException
     {
         if ( rerunFailingTestsCount > 0 )
         {
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
     }
 
     private void serializeTestClassWithoutRerun( OutputStream outputStream, OutputStreamWriter fw, XMLWriter ppw,
-                                                 List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries )
+                                                 List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries ) throws IOException
     {
         for ( WrappedReportEntry methodEntry : methodEntries )
         {
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
     }
 
     private void serializeTestClassWithRerun( OutputStream outputStream, OutputStreamWriter fw, XMLWriter ppw,
-                                              List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries )
+                                              List<WrappedReportEntry> methodEntries ) throws IOException
     {
         WrappedReportEntry firstMethodEntry = methodEntries.get( 0 );
         switch ( getTestResultType( methodEntries ) )
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
         return new File( reportsDirectory, stripIllegalFilenameChars( customizedReportName + ".xml" ) );
     }
 
-    private void startTestElement( XMLWriter ppw, WrappedReportEntry report )
+    private void startTestElement( XMLWriter ppw, WrappedReportEntry report ) throws IOException
     {
         ppw.startElement( "testcase" );
         String name = phrasedMethodName ? report.getReportName() : report.getName();
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
         ppw.addAttribute( "time", report.elapsedTimeAsString() );
     }
 
-    private void createTestSuiteElement( XMLWriter ppw, WrappedReportEntry report, TestSetStats testSetStats )
+    private void createTestSuiteElement( XMLWriter ppw, WrappedReportEntry report, TestSetStats testSetStats ) throws IOException
     {
         ppw.startElement( "testsuite" );
 
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
 
     private static void getTestProblems( OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter, XMLWriter ppw,
                                          WrappedReportEntry report, boolean trimStackTrace, OutputStream fw,
-                                         String testErrorType, boolean createOutErrElementsInside )
+                                         String testErrorType, boolean createOutErrElementsInside ) throws IOException
     {
         ppw.startElement( testErrorType );
 
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
 
     // Create system-out and system-err elements
     private static void createOutErrElements( OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter, XMLWriter ppw,
-                                              WrappedReportEntry report, OutputStream fw )
+                                              WrappedReportEntry report, OutputStream fw ) throws IOException
     {
         EncodingOutputStream eos = new EncodingOutputStream( fw );
         addOutputStreamElement( outputStreamWriter, eos, ppw, report.getStdout(), "system-out" );
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
     private static void addOutputStreamElement( OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter,
                                          EncodingOutputStream eos, XMLWriter xmlWriter,
                                          Utf8RecodingDeferredFileOutputStream utf8RecodingDeferredFileOutputStream,
-                                         String name )
+                                         String name ) throws IOException
     {
         if ( utf8RecodingDeferredFileOutputStream != null && utf8RecodingDeferredFileOutputStream.getByteCount() > 0 )
         {
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
      *
      * @param xmlWriter The test suite to report to
      */
-    private static void showProperties( XMLWriter xmlWriter, Map<String, String> systemProperties )
+    private static void showProperties( XMLWriter xmlWriter, Map<String, String> systemProperties ) throws IOException
     {
         xmlWriter.startElement( "properties" );
         for ( final Entry<String, String> entry : systemProperties.entrySet() )
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ public class StatelessXmlReporter
      * @param message   The string
      */
     private static void extraEscapeElementValue( String message, OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter,
-                                                 XMLWriter xmlWriter, OutputStream fw )
+                                                 XMLWriter xmlWriter, OutputStream fw ) throws IOException
     {
         // Someday convert to xml 1.1 which handles everything but 0 inside string
         if ( containsEscapesIllegalXml10( message ) )