Is Cobertura dead? I'd prefer to keeping using a FOSS test coverage tool
instead of one behind a license (Clover). Should we switch to Clover (we
have a license for Apache)? What about Emma?

Thoughts?

Gary


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Bruno P. Kinoshita <ki...@apache.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I preferred to write to the mailing list with an [ALL] component tag
> instead of commenting a resolved issue. I apologize if it was not the right
> choice.
>
> In CODEC-161, the following if statement could never reach 100% coverage
> with cobertura-maven-plugin:
>
> if ((sumLength >= 5) && (sumLength <= 7))
>
>
> The branch where both boolean expressions are false can never be covered
> with cobertura instrumentation, even when the whole interval is tested (<5,
> >=5, <=7 and >7). As Sebb pointed out, this could be rewritten as:
>
> if (!(sumLength < 5 || sumLength > 7))
>
>
> And then cobertura-maven-plugin could reach 100% coverage. There is
> already an issue in cobertura-maven-plugin for this [1], but looks like it
> won't be fixed any soon.
>
> However, using jacoco-maven-plugin, it correctly interprets that the whole
> interval is covered, without the need to rewrite the if statement.
>
> Also, using -Djacoco.skip=true skipped the jacoco execution (I think the
> cobertura-maven-plugin has some issues skipping its execution in maven).
>
> The jacoco-maven-plugin is still in 0.6.1.20121212... version, but it may
> be useful in case a component has problems with the cobertura-maven-plugin.
> Sonar supports jacoco too.
>
> In case someone would like to try, there is a sample project with junit +
> jacoco-maven-plugin in github [2].
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> [1]
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3097325&group_id=130558&atid=720015
> [2] https://github.com/kinow/tests-for-coverage
>
> Bruno P. Kinoshita
> http://kinoshita.eti.br
> http://tupilabs.com
>
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