Any particular reason why you are using an outdated version of the JaCoCo plugin? For Java 8 support, you have to use at least version 0.7.0 (see changelog). In your configuration, the report goal is bound to the verify phase, so running mvn test won’t generate any report because it does not run the verify … Read more
I had same problem using maven cobertura plugin. All tests failed when run from cobertura:report. But all tests succeeded when run directly from surefire plugin. As some of you already said the problem is that coberture byte code instrumentation of is not compatible with JDK7. You can see here http://vikashazrati.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/quicktip-verifyerror-with-jdk-7/ that the exception is related … Read more
The answer is very simple: you are describing functional testing, which is an important part of software QA. Testing internal implementation is unit-testing, which is another part of software QA with a different goal. That’s why you are feeling that people disagree with your approach. Functional testing is important to validate that the system or … Read more
Thanks to, Yannick Welsch: After searching Google, reading the Gradle docs and going through older StackOverflow posts, I found this answer on the Official gradle forums! jacocoTestReport { afterEvaluate { classDirectories.setFrom(files(classDirectories.files.collect { fileTree(dir: it, exclude: ‘com/blah/**’) })) } } Source: https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2955 For older gradle versions < 5.x may need to use classDirectories = files(classDirectories.files.collect { … Read more
I was in the same situation as you, the half answers scattered throughout the Internet were quite annoying, since it seemed that many people had the same issue, but no one could be bothered to fully explain how they solved it. The Sonar docs refer to a GitHub project with examples that are helpful. What … Read more
This prose by Alberto Savoia answers precisely that question (in a nicely entertaining manner at that!): http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=204677 Testivus On Test Coverage Early one morning, a programmer asked the great master: “I am ready to write some unit tests. What code coverage should I aim for?” The great master replied: “Don’t worry about coverage, just write … Read more
I use the version of NCover that comes with TestDriven.NET. It will allow you to easily right-click on your unit test class library, and hit Test With→Coverage, and it will pull up the report.