[fyi] [icedtea-web] new code coverage direction - jacoco

[Jiri Vanek]

On 11/27/2012 06:36 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> hi all!
>
> Last few days I was hidding behind new codecoverage for icedtea-web. It have appeared to be more
> tricky then I thought:
>
> * Support for jdk7 on field of coverage tool is desperate - the only tool which support it and is
> alive (actually I really think it is the only one right now) is JACOCO.
> * jacoco packages in fedora are broken - I have fixed them and post patch to its maintainer
> * jacoco itself do not support coverage of boot-classapth, I have fixed this too, and I hope I will
> be able to upstream this patch - quite simple patch but it will need some more tuning (xboot.patch)
> [as I do not see to alll corners of this amazing tool]
> * jacoco although having excellent API, have no commandline tool for report generation and for
> merging of results. I have wrote my own (simple one, jacoco-tool.diff) and I hope I will be able to
> upstream it to rather then fill icedtea-web with it.
>
> So do not use this patch for now - it uses custom packages upon custom sources with custom
> dependences (Asm4 instead of asm3) :), but if all the fixes will go upstream then the results are
> amazing!
>
> The integration of patched package with patched sources is then quite simple and same as emma was.
> Coverage of unit tests, coverage of individual reproducers run, then merged all reproducers together
> and at the end merged all reproducers and unit test's results.
> On each sub-step xml and html report is generated.
>
> Good new is that it will be easy to cover also plugin [work in progress]
>
> Best regards
>    J.
>
>
> ps: with litlle bit more tweaking on xbooth.patch I was able to create coverage report for most
> rt.jar  itself  on openjdk build:)
>
hmm.. sun.reflect.* must be excluded on jdk7 too...