Question

I want to generate and view a coverage report for a Java-Maven project.

I’ve added the following to pom.xml:

<reporting>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
      <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.2</version>
      <configuration>
        <formats>
          <format>html</format>
        </formats>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</reporting>

When I run mvn cobertura:cobertura it builds successfully and reports to the console that Cobertura Report generation was successful but I can’t find the report.

If I cd into target/cobertura I find a file called cobertura.ser but I have no idea what to do with it.

Edit: After re-examining the docs, thanks to Andreas_D, I’ve added the <reporting> tag, but get the same result.

Answer 1

Have a look at the plugin’s documentation, there’s an example. Pretty sure that you have to add a <reporting> element to actually produce the report.