Details
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New Feature
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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New
Description
Hi all,
We should be able to measure the code coverage of our unit testcases. I believe it would be very helpful for the committers, if they could verify before committing a patch if it does not reduce the coverage.
Furthermore people could take a look in the code coverage reports to figure out where work needs to be done, i. e. where additional testcases are neccessary. It would be nice if we could add a page to the Lucene website showing the report, generated by the nightly build. Maybe you could add that to your preview page (LUCENE-707), Grant?
I attach a patch here that uses the tool EMMA to generate the code coverage reports. EMMA is a very nice open-source tool released under the CPL (same license as junit). The patch adds three targets to common-build.xml:
- emma-check: verifys if both emma.jar and emma_ant.jar are in the ant classpath
- emma-instrument: instruments the compiled code
- generate-emma-report: generates an html code coverage report
The following steps are neccessary in order to generate a code coverage report:
- add emma.jar and emma_ant.jar to your ant classpath (download emma from http://emma.sourceforge.net/)
- execute ant target 'emma-instrument' (depends on compile-test, so it will compile all core and test classes)
- execute ant target 'test' to run the unit tests
- execute ant target 'generate-emma-report'
To view the emma report open build/test/emma/index.html