Chapter 5. Exploring Code Coverage
This chapter explains the code coverage, coverage tools, and provides step-by-step guidance to generate a coverage report.
The following topics are covered in this chapter:
- Code, branch, and line coverage
- Coverage tools such as Clover, Cobertura, EclEmma, and JaCoCo
- Measuring coverage using Eclipse plugins
- Using Ant, Maven, and Gradle to generate reports
Understanding code coverage
Code coverage is a measurement of percentage of instructions of code being executed while the automated tests are running.
A piece of code with high code coverage implies that the code has been thoroughly unit tested and has a lower chance of containing bugs than code with a low code coverage. You should concentrate on writing meaningful ...
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