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Coverage testing with Appfuse and Cobertura

This articel will give a short overview how to integrate Cobertura in AppFuse. I assume that you have a running AppFuse project:

• [1] Download the latest version of Cobertura
• [2] Integrate the libraries in AppFuse
• [3] Integrate new Cobertura ANT-Tasks in the build.xml
• [4] Define new macros for Junit testing with Cobertura
• [5] Change test targets for Junit testing with Cobertura
• [6] Define new targets for generating the coverage reports
• [7] Test it!

Download the latest version of Cobertura [#1]

• The latest version of Cobertura is 1.7.

Integrate the libraries in AppFuse [#2]

• Create a new folder named 'cobertura-1.7' int the /lib directory of your AppFuse project.
• Copy cobertura.jar and the lib folder of the downloaded cobertura version in the new directory
• Add the following part to the lib/lib.properties file:

• Finally you have to add the reference to the cobertura.jar to all test classpaths. In order to do this, you have to edit your properties.xml file and add to every test target the element

So for example the dao.compile.classpath would look like

 <path id="dao.test.classpath">
        <path refid="dao.compile.classpath"/>
        <pathelement location="${dbunit.jar}"/>
        <pathelement location="${junit.jar}"/>
        <pathelement location="${commons-collections.jar}"/>
        <pathelement location="${log4j.jar}"/>
	<pathelement location="${cobertura.jar}"/>
    </path>

Integrate new Cobertura ANT-Tasks in the build.xml [#3]

• Open your build.xml and add the following part the the init target:

<path id="cobertura_classpath">
 <fileset dir="${cobertura.dir}">
   <include name="cobertura.jar" />
 </fileset>
 <fileset dir="${cobertura.dir}/lib">
   <include name="**/*.jar" />
 </fileset>
</path>
<taskdef classpathref="cobertura_classpath" resource="tasks.properties"/>

Define new macros for Junit testing with Cobertura [#4]

<macrodef name="instrument">
  <attribute name="module"/>
  <attribute name="additional.src.dirs" default=""/>
  <element name="options" optional="yes"/>
  <sequential>
   <echo level="info">Instrumenting classes...</echo>
	<!--
	Instrument the application classes, writing the
	instrumented classes into ${build.instrumented.dir}.
	-->

	<cobertura-instrument todir="${instrumented.dir}">

	<!--
	The following line causes instrument to ignore any
	source line containing a reference to log4j, for the
	purposes of coverage reporting.
	-->

	<ignore regex="org.apache.log4j.*" />
        <fileset dir="${build.dir}">
	
           <!--
	   Instrument all the application classes, but
	   don't instrument the test classes.
	   -->
	   <include name="**/*.class" />
	   <exclude name="**/*Test.class" />
	</fileset>
   </cobertura-instrument>
  </sequential>
</macrodef>

Now you have to specify, where cobertura should store the instrumented classes (You have to define the instrumented.dir variable). Add the following line to your build.properties:

instrumented.dir=${build.dir}/instrumtented

Change test targets for Junit testing with Cobertura [#5]

Add the line to the macrodef. Finally it should look something linke this:

<macrodef name="test-module">
  <attribute name="module"/>
  <attribute name="additional.src.dirs" default=""/>
  <element name="options" optional="yes"/>

  <sequential>
    <echo level="info">Testing @{module}...</echo>
    <mkdir dir="${test.dir}/data"/>
    <propertycopy name="testcase" from="@{module}-testcase" silent="true"/>
    <!-- Replace tokens in test properties files -->
    <copy todir="${test.dir}/@{module}/classes">
       <fileset dir="test/@{module}" excludes="**/*.java"/>
       <filterset refid="variables.to.replace"/>
     </copy>
     <instrument module="@{module}"/> <!-- Thats the new line -->
   ......

Additional we need a sysproperty in order to tell cobertura where to store the coverage results and a new classpath reference to the instrumented code:

....
<junit printsummary="no" forkmode="once" errorProperty="test.failed"
 failureProperty="test.failed" fork="${junit.fork}">
    <sysproperty key="net.sourceforge.cobertura.datafile" file="${basedir}/cobertura.ser" /> <!-- Thats a new line -->
    <classpath location="${instrumented.dir}" /> <!-- Thats a new line -->

...

Define new targets for generating the coverage reports [#6]

<target name="test-reports-coverage" depends="init">
  <!--
  Generate a series of HTML files containing the coverage
  data in a user-readable form using nested source filesets.
  -->
  <mkdir dir="${test.dir}/coverage"/>
     <cobertura-report destdir="${test.dir}/coverage">
     <fileset dir="${src.dir}/dao">
	<include name="**/*.java"/>
     </fileset>
     <fileset dir="${src.dir}/service">
       <include name="**/*.java"/>
     </fileset>
     <fileset dir="${src.dir}/web">
	<include name="**/*.java"/>
     </fileset>
  </cobertura-report>
</target>

and define in your build.properties, where cobertura can find the sources by adding the line

src.dir=${basedir}/src

Test it! [#7]

Like Matt Raible would say: Yeah Baby, Yeah: BUILD SUCCESSFUL