+1000 on report-only

2009/4/29 Stevo Slavić <[email protected]>

> I agree it's a hack. Anyway, aggregate/merge support is one issue, what
> about all the others. Any thoughts on report-only mojo? Btw, surefire report
> plug-in has one too.
>
>
> Regards,
> Stevo.
>
> 2009/4/29 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]>
>
>> Hackedy-hackedy-hack!
>>
>> Maven 3.x with the build plan stuff will fix all these issues... and
>> change the baby's nappy while it's at it
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>> -Stephen
>>
>> 2009/4/29 Stevo Slavić <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Parent project could create initial empty cobertura.ser file, children
>>> modules could merge their coverage data into it. Question is how to get
>>> parent (aggregator module) to have report generated at the end of the whole
>>> build.
>>>
>>> If such scenario is not naturally supported in Maven2, maybe a workaround
>>> would be to have plugin when executing report mojo for parent project
>>> actually just register a JVM shutdown hook (similarly to Cobertura) and
>>> generate report when Maven build successfully ends (if build fails, coverage
>>> report doesn't mean much anyway). This assumes that report generation will
>>> not fail, and if it does it won't fail a build (IMO just warning/error log
>>> feedback will suffice). Also, it assumes that plugin will, before
>>> registering shutdown hook, obtain and save reference for later to all
>>> necessary info needed for report generation so that generation doesn't fail
>>> because build has ended.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stevo.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/4/29 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/4/29 Stevo Slavić <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>> I've asked because there seems to be a number of more or less important
>>>>> issues, very small number of issues has been resolved in last 
>>>>> year<http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=11226&status=5&status=6&updated:previous=-52w&sorter/field=updated&sorter/order=DESC>,
>>>>> even tho at least some of the issues have high vote count and/or have
>>>>> patches from the community, like this 
>>>>> one<http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOBERTURA-86>I'm currently most 
>>>>> interested in where I'm proposing a new
>>>>> cobertura:report-only mojo to be added - currentl one can generate report
>>>>> only through cobertura:cobertura mojo which executes test phase in 
>>>>> cobertura
>>>>> lifecycle so tests in integration-test phase do not get run; with
>>>>> cobertura:report-only mojo user has responsibility to instrument code and
>>>>> execute tests in whichever phase (s)he chooses.
>>>>>
>>>>> About aggregating coverage results in a multimodule project, isn't it
>>>>> enough to
>>>>>
>>>>>    - resolve this <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOBERTURA-33> very
>>>>>    long standing issue, by implementing support for cobertura:merge mojo &
>>>>>    task;
>>>>>    - have users configure cobertura:instrument mojo at parent and thus
>>>>>    inherited by every child;
>>>>>    - implement some new cobertura:aggregate report mojo which would
>>>>>    (like report-only mojo bind to validate phase and) just call merge task
>>>>>    before generating report for a parent project only?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You think this is the solution... but whe you try to roll a release, in
>>>> the release:perform stage, either the aggregator parent module runs first,
>>>> and there's no results to include, or it runs last (in which case it cannot
>>>> be the parent and you have to put the config all over the place)...
>>>>
>>>> the clover solution is to fork the build... but that just makes matters
>>>> worse with everyone forking the build and a forked build only removing the
>>>> forking plugin from the lifecycle and not removing any previous plugins 
>>>> that
>>>> forked the build...
>>>>
>>>> end result is that if you have N modules, you run the unit tests approx
>>>> 2*N*(N-1) times at least... more if you have another plugin that forks the
>>>> build... more still if you have a depth > 1
>>>>
>>>> -Stephen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>    -
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Stevo.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/4/29 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>>> My understanding is that there is an issue with aggregating coverage
>>>>>> results for a multi-module project and forking the build...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clover faces the same issue but is farther down the road, and it looks
>>>>>> like there is no good solution for Maven 2.x (i.e. need the build plan 
>>>>>> stuff
>>>>>> from 3.x)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Cobertura plugin seems to work fine otherwise, why would it need a
>>>>>> new release?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Stephen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/4/29 Stevo Slavić <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Codehaus Mojo Users,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are there any active Cobertura Maven Plug-in developers? Project
>>>>>>> appears to be dead...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Stevo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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