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Unit tests coverage

This document explains how to measure your server-side (Java) unit tests coverage using the JaCoCo tool.

Enable the JaCoCo agent for a specified module ​

Using Docker images​

Our standard images already contains the up-to-date JaCoCo tool by default in the /usr/local/jacoco folder.

To enable coverage measurement of unit tests execution just pass the JACOCO_MODULES environment variable to the container with a space-separated list of modules (e.g. -e JACOCO_MODULES="MyModule MyOtherModule").

The JaCoCo agent exec file is generated at the location denoted by the JACOCO_DESTFILE environment variable which defaults to /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/dbdoc/content/jacoco/jacoco.exec. You must ensure persistence for the above jacoco folder (which is the case if you already ensure the persistence of the dbdoc folder), for instance by mounting a dedicated volume. This is also useful for report generation as this default folder is also the default location for report files, see bellow.

To be able to generate a human-readable report (see bellow) you must also mount the src and bin folders located in the /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF folder because both of them are used by the report generation process.

By default, the exec file is appended when restarting the container, but you can change this by setting the JACOCO_DESTFILE_APPEND environment viariable to false (e.g. -e JACOCO_DESTFILE_APPEND="false"), in this case the exec file is reset each time the container is restarted.

Note: you can use the import specification mechanism to automate the modules import and unit tests execution.

Manually​

You can do the same manually for "traditional" Tomcat deployments.

Download the JaCoCo tool and unzip it somewhere acessible to Tomcat (noted <path> bellow).

Add following option to JVM arguments when starting Tomcat (in the example bellow only one module is monitored noted <module>):

-javaagent:<path>/jacoco-0.8.12/lib/jacocoagent.jar=destfile=<path>/jacoco.exec,includes=com.simplicite.*.<module>.*

Generate a human-readable report ​

Note that in all cases (Docker ou manual) the above agent's jacococ.exec exec file is generated only when the JVM is shut down.

This means you must stop the JVM before generating the report as explained bellow.

Using Docker images​

You just have to stop and restart the container for the human-readable HTML report to be generated in the folder location denoted by the JACOCO_REPORTDIR environment variable which defaults to /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/dbdoc/content/jacoco (in order to be available as the static webapp https://<base url>/content/jacoco/).

Note: as said above you should you can make the report folder available outside of the container ensuring its persistence by the appropriate volume.

Manually​

You can manually generate a human-readable HTML report from the JaCoCo agent exec file using the following command:

java -jar <path>/jacoco-0.8.12/lib/jacococli.jar \
  report <path>/jacoco.exec \
  --html <path>/jacoco \
  --sourcefiles <tomcat root>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/src \
  --classfiles <tomcat root>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/bin
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