On 5/22/13 9:52 AM, Gary Gregory wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> [parent] version 29 replaces Cobertura with Jacoco, the main reasoning from
> the folks over at [math] being that Jacoco is very fast compared to
> Cobertura. In the case of [math] it's hours vs. minutes.
>
> The problem is that Jacoco produces bogus results as I recently emailed
> about the [io] component. The large portion of the code is reported with 0%
> coverage which is completely wrong. This is apparently a known issue due to
> the Jacoco use of 'probes' to analyze code which is not compatible with the
> use of exceptions.
>
> If you get the latest from [io] and edit the POM to enable JaCoC, you can
> compare both reports in the generated site with 'mvn clean site'.
>
> Fast and bogus is not better than slow and right.
>
> I propose we switch [parent] back to Cobertura until a better alternative
> is proposed. [math] can decide if it can live with the fast and bad results
> provided by Jacoco.

Maybe broken-record-ish, but I really, really think there should be
*nothing* forced by the parent here - i.e., let the individual
components decide which, if either one, to use.

Phil
>
> Gary
>


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