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NAME
cobertura-instrument -- add coverage instrumentation to existing classes
SYNOPSIS
cobertura-instrument [--basedir dir] [--datafile file] [--destination dir] [--ignore regex] classes [...]
DESCRIPTION
cobertura-instrument inserts instrumentation instructions directly into your compiled Java classes. When these instructions are encountered
by the Java Virtual Machine, the inserted code increments various counters so that it is possible to tell which instructions have been
encountered and which have not.
OPTIONS
Classes may be specified individually, or as a directory tree containing multiple classes.
--basedir dir
Specify the base directory containing the classes you want to instrument. This command line parameter should appear before any
classes. If you are instrumenting classes in different directories, you should specify multiple basedirs.
--datafile file
Specify the name of the file to use for storing the metadata about your classes. This is a single file containing serialized Java
classes. It contains information about the names of classes in your project, their method names, line numbers, etc. It will be
updated as your tests are run, and will be referenced by the Cobertura reporting command. Default value: "./cobertura.ser".
--destination dir
Specify the output directory for the instrumented classes. If no destination directory is specified, then the uninstrumented
classes will be overwritten with their instrumented counterparts.
--ignore regex
Specify a regular expression to filter out certain lines of your source code. This is useful for ignoring logging statements, for
example. You can have as many <ignore/> statements as you want. By default no files are ignored.
SEE ALSO
junit(1), cobertura-check(1), cobertura-report(1), cobertura-merge(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the terms of GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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