agilecreativity / gradle-cobertura-xmlunit-demo

Gradle bootstrap project with some Cobertura, XmlUnit example

Gradle Bootstrap Java Project

Here is the example Java project that works with the following tools

• Use of XML Unit for comparing the output generated from the program.

• Use of JUnit 4 and Hamcrest for unit testing.

• Use of Gradle for build and testing automation.

• Use of Cobertura for code coverage

How to build and run the project.

• The project is build using Gradle which is very powerful and easy to use as an alternative to Apache Maven.

On Mac system, you can install it using HomeBrew

$brew install gradle

Or simply download it from the official site.

Once this is done, then you should be able to run the project by simple type:

$./gradlew tasks
or
$gradle tasks

Or run the default tasks e.g. clean, test, cobertura, runMainClass

./gradlew

List of other runnable tasks

    tasks        - Displays the tasks runnable from root project
    cleanEclipse - Cleans all Eclipse files.
    cleanIdea    - Cleans IDEA project files (IML, IPR)
    eclipse      - Generates all Eclipse files.
    idea         - Generates IDEA project files (IML, IPR, IWS)
    check        - Runs all checks.
    test         - Runs the unit tests.
    cobertura    - Generate Cobertura coverage reports after running tests.

Import project to Eclipse or IntelliJ project

• To generate the properfile for Eclipse just type

./gradlew cleanEclipse eclipse

Then use Eclipse's import project file.

• For IntelliJ Idea , run the following command

./gradlew cleanIdea idea

Coverage Reports

As stated above, the coverage report can be obtained by running the following command.

./gradlew cobertura

Which will produces the html report to build/reports/cobertura/ directory.

Unit Test Reports

The report can be obtained by run the following command

./gradlew test

will produces the html report to build/reports/test/ directory.