Running the Cobertura Ant task

This section will explain how to configure the Cobertura Ant task in your project.

The following are the steps for configuration:

  1. Gradle and Maven can download the coverage tool JARs while running the build, but Ant needs the Cobertura JAR files to the classpath. Download the Cobertura ZIP file from http://cobertura.github.io/cobertura/.
  2. Extract the ZIP file and copy all JAR files in the downloaded ZIP to Chapter05\lib. Include all JARs from the lib folder and cobertura.jar from the root folder.
  3. Create a build.properties file under Chapter05\Chapter05 and enter the following information:
    src.dir=src/main/java test.dir=src/test/java # The path to cobertura.jar cobertura.dir=../lib classes.dir=classes instrumented.dir=instrumented ...

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