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I have automated tests that use HttpUnit/HtmlUnit/Empirix/Rational Robot, can I use Cobertura?

April 26, 2017Automated cobertura htmlunit httpunit Robot tests

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I have automated tests that use HttpUnit/HtmlUnit/Empirix/Rational Robot, can I use Cobertura?

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Yes! The process is a bit more involved, but the concept is the same. First instrument your compiled classes. Then create your war file. Then deploy the war file into your application server (Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc). Now run your tests. As your classes are accessed, they will create a “cobertura.ser” file on the disk. You may need to dig around a bit to find it. Cobertura puts this file in what it considers to be the current working directory. Typically this is the directory that the application server was started from (for example, C:\Tomcat\bin) Note: This file is not written to the disk until the application server exits. See below for how to work around this. Now that you know where the cobertura.ser file is, you should modify your deploy step so that it moves the original cobertura.ser to the appropriate directory in your application server, and then moves it back when finished testing. Then run cobertura-report.