An Introduction to Code Coverage. We were just logging results in the terminal but the same principal applies when you run your test suite. Your code coverage tool will monitor the execution of. Jacoco is used to measure the code coverage of application. In this tutorial we will understand how to configure Jacoco in maven and how to use Jacoco to see code coverage report. 7.1 To see the output go to target directory and open index.html from jacoco-ut folder in browser. Overall Report for.
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Java code coverage tools are of two types: first, tools that add statements to the Javasource code and require its recompilation. Second, tools that instrument the bytecode, either before or during execution. The goal is to find out which parts of the code are tested by registering the lines of code executed when running a test.
- 1JCov
- 2JaCoCo
- 8Notable historic tools
- 8.2EMMA
JCov[edit]
Developer(s) | Leonid Arbouzov, Alexander Petrov, Vladimir Generalov, Serguei Chukhontsev, Oleg Uliankin, Gregory Steuck, Pavel Ozhdikhin, Konstantin Bobrovsky, Robert Field, Alexander Kuzmin, Leonid Mesnik, Sergey Borodin, Andrey Titov, Dmitry Fazunenko, Alexey Fedorchenko, Leonid Kuskov |
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Stable release | 3.0 / September 1, 2014; 5 years ago |
Type | Code coverage |
License | GPL v2 (with the Classpath Exception) |
Website | wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/CodeTools/jcov |
JCov is the tool which has been developed and used with Sun JDK (and later Oracle JDK) from the very beginning of Java: from the version 1.1. JCov is capable of measuring and reporting Javacode coverage. JCov is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License (version 2, with the Classpath Exception). JCov has become open-source as a part of OpenJDK code tools project in 2014.
Features[edit]
JCov is capable of reporting the following types of code coverage:
- Block coverage
- Line coverage
- Branch coverage
- Method coverage
JCov implements two different ways to save the collected data:
- Into a file on the filesystem
- Onto a server (a.k.a. 'network grabber')
JCov works by instrumenting Java bytecode using two different approaches:
- Static instrumentation which is done upfront, changing the tested code
- Dynamic instrumentation which is done on the fly by means of Java agent
JCov has a few more distinctive features which include, but are not limited to:
- Field coverage
- Abstract API coverage
- Direct/indirect coverage
- Per-test coverage information (a.k.a. 'test scales')
- Public API and SPI which makes it possible to implement custom filtering and/or mining the coverage data
Tools using JCov[edit]
- Oracle JDK (SE and ME)
- JCK (the Java Compatibility Kit)
- Various Java SE and Java ME TCKs
- Java FX SDK
- Java FX Scene Builder
JaCoCo[edit]
Developer(s) | Marc Hoffmann, Brock Janiczak, Evgeny Mandrikov, Mirko Friedenhagen |
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Stable release | 0.8.5 / October 11, 2019; 2 months ago |
Type | Code coverage |
License | EPL |
Website | www.jacoco.org/jacoco |
JaCoCo is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting Javacode coverage. JaCoCo is distributed under the terms of the Eclipse Public License. It was developed as a replacement for EMMA,[1] under the umbrella of the EclEmma plug-in for Eclipse.
Features[edit]
JaCoCo offers instructions, line and branch coverage.
In contrast to Atlassian Clover and OpenClover, which require instrumenting the source code, JaCoCo can instrument Java bytecode using two different approaches:
- like JCov on the fly while running the code with a Java agent[2]
- like Cobertura and JCov prior to execution (offline)
And can be configured to store the collected data in a file, or send it via TCP. Files from multiple runs or code parts can be merged easily.[3] Unlike Cobertura and EMMA it fully supports Java 7, Java 8,[4] Java 9, Java 10, Java 11, Java 12, Java 13 and Java 14.
Tools using or including JaCoCo[edit]
- SonarQube JaCoCo plugin — one of the defaults for coverage analyses within the code quality management platform SonarQube
- EclEmma Eclipse (software) Code Coverage Plugin, was formerly EMMA based[5]
- Jenkins JaCoCo Plugin[6]
- Netbeans JaCoCo support[7]
- IntelliJ IDEA since v11[4]
- Gradle JaCoCo Plugin[8]
- Visual Studio Team Services[9]
- TeamCity[10]
- STAMP (https://www.stamp-project.eu/)[11]
OpenClover[edit]
Developer(s) | Marek Parfianowicz, Grzegorz Lewandowski |
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Stable release | |
Type | Code coverage |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | openclover.org |
OpenClover is a free and open-source successor of Atlassian Clover, created as a fork from the Clover code base published by Atlassian in 2017. It contains all features of the original Clover (the server edition). The OpenClover project is led by developers who maintained Clover in years 2012-2017.[12]
OpenClover uses source code instrumentation technique and handles Java, Groovy and AspectJ languages. Some of its features include: fine control over scope of coverage measurement, test optimisation and sophisticated reports.
OpenClover integrates with Ant, Maven, Gradle, Grails, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson, Griffon, SonarQube and AspectJ.
Cobertura[edit]
Developer(s) | Steven Christou |
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Stable release | |
Repository | github.com/cobertura/cobertura |
Type | Code coverage |
License | GPL 2.0 |
Website | cobertura.github.io/cobertura/ |
Cobertura is an open-source tool for measuring code coverage. It does so by instrumenting the byte code.
Serenity[edit]
Developer(s) | Michael Couck |
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Stable release | |
Type | Code coverage |
License | Apache Software License version 2.0 |
Website | wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Serenity+Plugin |
Serenity is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting Javacode coverage. As well as coverage, major code metrics are measured:- cyclometric complexity, stability, abstractness and distance from main. The report data is persisted to an object database, and made available via Jenkins/Hudson. The interface replicates the Eclipse IDE interface visually.
Serenity dynamically enhances the byte code, making a post-compile step unnecessary. Ant and Maven projects are supported. Configuration is done in xml, an Ant example would be:
And a Maven configuration example would be:
For a full example of a configuration please refer to the Jenkins wiki at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Serenity+Plugin.
Jenkins slaves as well as Maven multi module projects are supported.
Testwell CTC++ for Java[edit]
Developer(s) | Verifysoft Technology |
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Stable release | 8.0. / June 30, 2016; 3 years ago |
Type | Code coverage |
License | Proprietary |
Website | verifysoft.com/en_ctcpp.html |
Testwell CTC++ is a code coverage tool for C, C++, Java and C#. The development of this tool started in 1989 at Testwell in Finland. Since 2013 support and development has been continued by Verifysoft Technology, a company from Offenburg, Germany. Testwell CTC++ analyses for all code coverage levels up to Modified condition/decision coverage and Multicondition Coverage.[13] The tool works with all compilers.[14]
IntelliJ IDEA Code Coverage Agent[edit]
Developer(s) | JetBrains |
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Type | Code coverage |
License | Apache 2.0 |
Website | github.com/JetBrains/intellij-coverage |
IntelliJ IDEA Code Coverage Agent is a code coverage tool integrated in IntelliJ IDEA IDE and TeamCity CI server. It supports branch coverage and per-test coverage tracking.
Notable historic tools[edit]
Clover[edit]
Developer(s) | Atlassian |
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Stable release | 4.1.2 / October 11, 2016; 3 years ago |
Type | Code coverage |
License | Apache 2.0 |
Website | atlassian.com |
Clover is a Java code coverage analysis utility bought and further developed by Atlassian. In April 2017 Atlassian announced end-of-life of Clover and at the same time open-sourced it under Apache 2.0 license.
Clover uses a source code instrumentation technique (as opposed to Cobertura and JaCoCo, which use byte code instrumentation), which has its advantages (such as an ability to collect code metrics) and disadvantages (re-compilation of sources is necessary).[15] Some of its features include historical reporting, huge control over the coverage gathering process, command line toolset and API for legacy integration and more.
Clover also allows testing time to be reduced by only running the tests that cover the application code that was modified since the previous build. This is called Test Optimization[16] and can lead to huge drops in the amount of time spent waiting for automated tests to complete.
Clover comes with a number of integrations both developed by Atlassian (Ant, Maven, Grails, Eclipse, IDEA, Bamboo) and by open source community (Gradle, Griffon, Jenkins, Hudson, Sonar).
In April 2017, Atlassian announced that they would no longer release new versions of Clover after version 4.1.2, and its code was made available as open-source software hosted on Bitbucket.[17][18]
EMMA[edit]
Developer(s) | Vlad Roubtsov |
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Stable release | |
Repository | sourceforge.net/projects/emma/ |
Type | Code coverage |
License | Common Public License 1.0 |
Website | emma.sourceforge.net |
EMMA is an open-source toolkit for measuring and reporting Javacode coverage. EMMA is distributed under the terms of Common Public License v1.0.
EMMA is not currently under active development; the last stable release took place in mid-2005. As replacement, JaCoCo was developed.[19]EMMA works by wrapping each line of code and each condition with a flag, which is set when that line is executed.[20]
Features[edit]
- instrument classes for coverage either offline (before they are loaded) or on the fly (using an instrumenting application classloader).
- Supported coverage types: class, method, line, basic block. EMMA can detect when a single source code line is covered only partially.
- Coverage stats are aggregated at method, class, package, and 'all classes' levels.
- Output report types: plain text, HTML, XML. All report types support drill-down, to a user-controlled detail depth. The HTML report supports source code linking.
- Output reports can highlight items with coverage levels below user-provided thresholds.
- Coverage data obtained in different instrumentation or test runs can be merged.
- it is possible to dump or reset coverage data remotely and without a JVM exit.
- does not require access to the source code and degrades gracefully with decreasing amount of debug information available in the input classes.
- can instrument individual .class files or entire .jars (in place, if desired). Efficient coverage subset filtering is possible, too.
- Makefile and ANT build integration are supported on equal footing.
- The runtime overhead of added instrumentation is small (5–20%) and the bytecode instrumentor itself is very fast (mostly limited by file I/O speed). Memory overhead is a few hundred bytes per Java class.
- EMMA is 100% pure Java, has no external library dependencies, and works in any Java 2 JVM (even 1.2.x).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^JaCoCo Mission
- ^Patroklos Papapetrou (19 December 2012). 'Code Coverage Tools (JaCoCo, Cobertura, Emma) Comparison in Sonar'. Only Software matters. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^Measure Coverage by Integration Tests with Sonar – Updated
- ^ ab'Code Coverage'. IntelliJ IDEA 12.0 Web Help. JetBrains. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^EclEmma, Eclipse code coverage plugin
- ^Jenkins JaCoCo Plugin
- ^NetBeans JaCoCo support
- ^Gradle JaCoCo Plugin
- ^JaCoCo integration in Visual Studio Team Services
- ^JaCoCo integration in TeamCity
- ^Jacoco is used by STAMP DSpot tool as a test selector (seen as a fitness) to select tests that increase the coverage and have unique executed path
- ^OpenClover - About us
- ^Testwell CTC++ supports all coverage levels
- ^Testwell CTC++ supports all compilers
- ^'Why does Clover use source code instrumentation?'
- ^Test Optimization
- ^'Atlassian Clover is now open source'. atlassian.com. 11 April 2017.
- ^'atlassian/clover'. bitbucket.org.
- ^EMMA code coverage files on SourceForge.net
- ^Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow; By Seth Ladd, Darren Davison, Steven Devijver, Colin Yates, p. 289
External links[edit]
- Pick your code coverage tool in Sonar 2.2, a little outdated, as JaCoCo meanwhile supports branch coverage
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Code coverage is an important measure that quantifies the degree to which the source code of the program has been tested. There is a plethora of Code Coverage Tools in the market and selecting one for your project could be a challenge.
Following is a curated list of Top 13 handpicked Code Coverage tools with popular features and latest download links
1) Coco
Coco-platform is a multi-language code coverage tool. Automatic source code instrumentation helps you to measure test coverage of statements, branches, and conditions.
Features:
- Coco allows you to perform statement coverage, branch coverage, MC/DC and other levels
- Coco supports C, C++, C#, Tcl, and QML
- Helps you to merge multiple execution reports to provide advanced analysis
2) Parasoft Jtest
Parasoft Jtest offers integrated Java development testing for the enterprise. The tool allows you to accelerate Java software development by providing a set of tools for keeping your software reliable and secure. This helps you to improve the quality of your software and minimize business risks.
Features:
- Prevent reliability and security issues from entering production
- Unit testing for active development
- Helps you to understand where to focus your testing activities
- Get visibility into your Java quality with immediate feedback
3) Cobertura
Cobertura is a popular open source code coverage tool. It allows you to execute tasks via Maven and Ant, or the Cobertura CLI. You can embed with other multiple QA tools.
Features:
- Allows you to measure coverage without having the source code
- Helps you to find which parts of your Java program are lacking test coverage
- Allows you to represent reports in HTML and XML format
- Helps you to test lines and branches of the class & method
Download link: https://cobertura.github.io/cobertura/
4) Coverage.py
Coverage.py is another useful code coverage tool. It helps you to monitor Python programs, notes which are parts of the code have been executed.
Features:
- Coverage.py helps you to specify what source files you want it to analyze via the configuration file
- It also helps you to analyze the source to find out code that which could have been executed but was not.
Download link:https://coverage.readthedocs.io/
5) JaCoCo
JaCoCo is a free Java code coverage tool distributed under the Eclipse Public License. It is an open source free code coverage tools for Java, which has been made by the EclEmma.
Features:
- JaCoCo offers instructions, line and branch coverage
- It supports Java 7 and Java 8
- Helps you to test lines and branches of the class & method
- Offers easy to navigate HTML or XML report
Download link: http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/
6) OpenClover
OpenClover tool helps you to measures code coverage for Java and Groovy and collects over 20 code metrics. It helps you to display untested areas of your application. It helps you to combines coverage and metrics to find the riskiest code.
Features:
- Helps you to runs your test faster
- Allows you to focus what's necessary for your test
- Both branch and statement coverage support
- Allows you to generate XML-based report that, combined with ReportGenerator, produces TML-based report on coverage
- Helps you to keep the balance between application and tests
Download link: http://openclover.org/
7) Bullseye Coverage
BullseyeCoverage is a code coverage software for C++ and C that tells you how much of your source code was tested. This tool allows you to perform unit testing, integration testing, and final release.
Features:
- Provide better coverage measurement
- Helps you to create more reliable code and save time
- Allows you to Include or exclude any portion of the project code
- Merge results from distributed testing
Download link:http://www.bullseye.com/
8) NCover
NCover is an advanced level code coverage tool for.Net programs and applications. It provides support for statement coverage and branch coverage. This code coverage tool is available on open source and as well as on commercial license.
Features:
- .NET code coverage according to your customized needs
- Helps you to test, track and manage a unified coverage number across entire teams
- Detailed and centralized data about coverage
- Extensive documentation and user support
- This tool helps you to perform manual and coverage tests
- Deliver products to market faster and confidently in agile environments
Download link: http://www.ncover.com/
9) Vector Software
VectorCAST allows you to implement consistent processes for managing test activities and reporting key quality metrics. This software testing tool offers a cost-effective approach to unit testing, regression management, and code coverage analysis.
Features:
- Easy Test Collaboration
- System Test Automation
- Quality trend & change Impact Analysis
- Allows parallel Testing
- Web-based Quality Dashboard
Download link:https://www.vectorcast.com/software-testing-products/vectorcast-analytics-web-based-metrics-quality-and-testing
10) Devel:Cover
Devel cover offers code coverage metrics for Perl. With the help of this code cover tool, you can discover areas of code not exercised by your tests. It helps you to tests to create to increase coverage.
Features:
- Offers some reports which include various types of HTML output, textual reports
- Statement, branch, condition, subroutine, and pod coverage information is reported
Download link:http://search.cpan.org/~pjcj/Devel-Cover-1.23/lib/Devel/Cover.pm
11) dotCover
dotCover offers by JetBrains is a .NET unit test runner and code coverage tool. It allows you to integrate with Jet brains rider with Visual Studio. You can also calculate reports statement-level code coverage in applications for .NET, Silverlight or .NET Core.
Features:
- Allows you to visualize code coverage according to your business needs
- Provides a console utility for use with a Continuous Integration server
- Helps you to customize your coverage analysis with a coverage filter
- Allows you to use a shortcut to finds out which unit tests cover a particular statement
Download link: https://www.jetbrains.com/dotcover/
12) Visual Studio
Code coverage feature of Visual Studio helps you to determine what part of your project's code is tested by coded tests like unit tests. The tool allows you to view the previous set of results.
Features:
- Helps you to view a previous set of results
- Make results readable as text, select export code coverage results
- Allows you to merge results of several runs
- Allows you to export Code Coverage Results to save the results of a merge operation
Download link:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/dd537628.aspx
13) Istanbul
Istanbul is a code coverage tool used for Javascript. It support of ES6/ES2015+ using babel-plugin. The tool offers all javascript instrumentation library which helps you to tracks statement, branch, and function coverage.
Features:
- Collection of reporters offers both terminal and HTML output
- Support for the most popular JavaScript testing frameworks
- Support for instrumenting subprocesses, using the NYC command-line-interface
Download link:https://istanbul.js.org/