Cobertura instrumentation in complex projects

[Jim McCaskey <ji...@pervasive.com>]

Hello all,

I have a fairly large build in which we use cobertura extensively to look at unit test code coverage for our project.  We also have separate integration tests that we would like to run using these instrumented binaries.  There is some good documentation on how to accomplish that here:

http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/instrumentingDeploymentArtifact.html

While that would work for a simple case, I'm struggling with trying to visualize how this would work in a complex case.  We have several separate builds that accumulate to make up the install package that we then push to our integration testing systems.  So everyone one of our couple hundred jar's which are fed from all these builds would need to be published to a Maven repository so that the install builds could pick them up.  But if I push them to my standard SNAPSHOT repository it would overwrite my existing non-instrumented versions.

We only envision needing this run on a nightly basis.  One suggestion that has been proposed is to do the "publish with classifier" thing and a profile that turns on cobertura.

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/examples/deploying-with-classifiers.html

Frankly, I'm not sure how that plumbing would work at this point, but I suppose it's possible.  Having said that, I think we just got done having that conversation on this list and the answer is that that is "not the maven way".

I'm positive I'm not the first one in this boat.  Any thoughts?

-Jim





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RE: Cobertura instrumentation in complex projects

["Drury, Tim" <t....@sap.com>]

I've done exactly this and it's a pain.  I didn't want cobertura-instrumented jars from possibly infecting our production jars, so I have a Jenkins project that uses a private maven repo to build the entire product.  The final deliverable has a "cobertura" classifier and this is deployed to Artifactory.  Another Jenkins project runs daily to pick up this artifact and deploy it to our integration test server.

However, all this is only the start of your problems.  Getting cobertura data files from the integration server in an automated fashion is very hard.  I had to write a web service to fetch the data from the (well documented) cobertura static class and return it to the caller.  After my integration test cases run, a maven plugin I wrote fetches that data, and I use the Jenkins cobertura plugin to turn it into html reports.  

I'm in the process of scrapping all that in favor of jacoco which instruments the code on-the-fly via a javaagent running in the container.

-tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim McCaskey [mailto:jim.mccaskey@pervasive.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:00 PM
To: 'users@maven.apache.org'
Subject: Cobertura instrumentation in complex projects

Hello all,

I have a fairly large build in which we use cobertura extensively to look at unit test code coverage for our project.  We also have separate integration tests that we would like to run using these instrumented binaries.  There is some good documentation on how to accomplish that here:

http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/instrumentingDeploymentArtifact.html

While that would work for a simple case, I'm struggling with trying to visualize how this would work in a complex case.  We have several separate builds that accumulate to make up the install package that we then push to our integration testing systems.  So everyone one of our couple hundred jar's which are fed from all these builds would need to be published to a Maven repository so that the install builds could pick them up.  But if I push them to my standard SNAPSHOT repository it would overwrite my existing non-instrumented versions.

We only envision needing this run on a nightly basis.  One suggestion that has been proposed is to do the "publish with classifier" thing and a profile that turns on cobertura.

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/examples/deploying-with-classifiers.html

Frankly, I'm not sure how that plumbing would work at this point, but I suppose it's possible.  Having said that, I think we just got done having that conversation on this list and the answer is that that is "not the maven way".

I'm positive I'm not the first one in this boat.  Any thoughts?

-Jim





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