evosuite _ESTest.java results reported in sonar/jacoco - java

We have a single evosuite generated unittest .java file. We have other hand-crafted unittest .java files. We execute a build on our server and all unittests (evosuite and hand-crafted) are executed. We then go into our sonar dashboard and specifically look at the coverage. There is coverage reported by sonar/jacoco from the handcrafted unittests. However for the .java file that the evosuite was to test, that file still has 0% coverage even though on another panel in the sonar/jacoco dashboard the evosuite 16 tests were executed and it shows how long in ms they took.
The server where the builds take place was configured for us and we do not manage them. Sonar/Jacoco admin setup was done by others.
I'm at a loss as to why our handcrafted ones (some use #RunWith(JMockit.class) and some don't use a RunWith annotation) show up w/ coverage percentages and the evosuite does not.
Thanks,
Jim

yes, that is an issue that has been reported few times now... so I just added now some documentation about it :-) at:
http://www.evosuite.org/documentation/measuring-code-coverage/
you can read there why you get 0% coverage, and possible workarounds for it.

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My co-worker found this morning that compiling a project with Cobertura enabled changes the sonar results on the same project.
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FindBugs : it is a static analysis tool based on bytecode : it will read bytecode and raise issue when it detects bad pattern.
Cobertura : Coverage tool : how does this work ? it instruments the bytecode to place probes and when tests are run keep track of which probes where hit or not.
Then you can understand where the issue might be : FindBugs ends up analyzing the bytecode instrumented by Cobertura. That would explain why you have some new issues and why some of the empty methods issues are removed when analyzing with cobertura.
To avoid this issue you have to be sure your bytecode files are not instrumented when you analyze them with FindBugs but (disclaimer, I develop the sonar java plugin so I might be a little biased here ;) ) I would recommend you to stop using FindBugs in favor of the SonarQube Java Analyzer which won't have this issue as its analyzer approach things slightly differently (see this blog post about that)
User error. :-(
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As discussed in Open JaCoCo report in Intellij IDEA, when I gather code coverage statistics using Jacoco (rather than native IntelliJ tracing) 0.0% (i.e. "no" coverage) is always shown in the coverage window.
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However, as an alternative, we can push jacoco report (created as part of maven build) to the sonar(qube) server using maven-sonar-plugin's target, sonar:sonar
mvn clean install sonar:sonar -Dsonar.host.url=http://<sonar-host>:9000 -Dsonar.projectKey=<sonar project key> -Dsonar.branch=<sonar project branch> -Dsonar.login=<sonar user> -Dsonar.password=<sonar pwd>
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Is it possible to run incremental/automated JUnit testing in Eclipse?

Eclipse support incremental compiling. If I save a source file then it will compile the modified files.
Is it possible after such incremental compile also to run the JUnit tests of the same package and show the fail in the error view. Then I can see the JUnit test failing and compiling errors in the same view without extra action. Are there any plugins that can do it?
You have to look at these plugins:
JUnit Max: Not free, developed by Kent Benk (one of the men behind the TDD practice);
MoreUnit: Free, but essentially dedicated to help you write the tests;
Infinitest: Now free, this plugin is dedicated to run the tests related to the files you have just modified.
So regarding your needs, I suggest that you install MoreUnit and Infinitest plugins.
Use ExternalToolBuilder.
It can be triggered by source modify.
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You can run all tests in a project using Alt+Shift+X,T. I think that making it any more automated than this could take a serious performance toll. Incremental compilation is compiling at most 1 file at a time, but you're talking about running potentially hundreds of tests.

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