Working with the Maven Cobertura plugin
Maven has a Cobertura plugin to measure code coverage; this section will explain how to configure the Cobertura Maven plugin in your project.
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Cobertura uses asm to instrument the bytecode. The asm framework is a Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. Visit http://asm.ow2.org/ for asm details. Cobertura modifies the .class file, imports net.sourceforge.cobertura.coveragedata.*, implements the HasBeenInstrumented interface, and adds code to capture coverage, such as ProjectData.getGlobalProjectData().getOrCreateClassData("com.packt.coverage.Metrics").touch(21);.
After instrumenting the bytecode, Cobertura creates a .ser file and updates the file during test execution. This .ser file contains the ...
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