diff --git a/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py b/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
index 5d46c5210b..852f737df3 100644
--- a/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
+++ b/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
@@ -1226,7 +1226,10 @@ class _TestsLauncher(Loggable):
         globals()["__file__"] = c__file__
 
     def set_settings(self, options, args):
-        self.reporter = reporters.XunitReporter(options)
+        if options.xunit_file:
+            self.reporter = reporters.XunitReporter(options)
+        else:
+            self.reporter = reporters.Reporter(options)
 
         self.options = options
         wanted_testers = None
diff --git a/validate/launcher/main.py b/validate/launcher/main.py
index 4204f32430..a0f3228d69 100644
--- a/validate/launcher/main.py
+++ b/validate/launcher/main.py
@@ -251,8 +251,6 @@ class LauncherConfig(Loggable):
             self.logsdir = None
         if self.logsdir is None:
             self.logsdir = os.path.join(self.output_dir, "logs")
-        if self.xunit_file is None:
-            self.xunit_file = os.path.join(self.logsdir, "xunit.xml")
         if self.dest is None:
             self.dest = os.path.join(self.output_dir, "rendered")
 
@@ -446,8 +444,7 @@ Note that all testsuite should be inside python modules, so the directory should
         "Directories and files to be used by the launcher")
     parser.add_argument('--xunit-file', action='store',
                         dest='xunit_file', metavar="FILE",
-                        help=("Path to xml file to store the xunit report in. "
-                              "Default is LOGSDIR/xunit.xml"))
+                        help=("Path to xml file to store the xunit report in."))
     dir_group.add_argument("-M", "--main-dir", dest="main_dir",
                            help="Main directory where to put files. Default is %s" % DEFAULT_MAIN_DIR)
     dir_group.add_argument("--testsuites-dir", dest="testsuites_dir",
diff --git a/validate/launcher/reporters.py b/validate/launcher/reporters.py
index d73e0ef292..9ee58aadf8 100644
--- a/validate/launcher/reporters.py
+++ b/validate/launcher/reporters.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class Reporter(Loggable):
         self._start_time = time.time()
 
     def set_failed(self, test):
-        self.stats["failure"] += 1
+        self.stats["failures"] += 1
 
     def set_passed(self, test):
         self.stats["passed"] += 1