Any chance you could give it a poke with emma or clover (they've a 30 day eval license for free)
It might reveal if it's the instrumentation per se that is the problem or if it's limited to cobertura 2008/9/25 Edelson, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > See my other email about the instanceof problem. I don't see how this is > a concurrency problem. It's the test on this line: > http://fisheye1.atlassian.com/browse/springframework/spring/src/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java?r=1.182#l1363 > behaving > differently. > > Justin > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Stephen Connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thu 9/25/2008 12:21 PM > > *To:* user@mojo.codehaus.org > *Subject:* Re: [mojo-user] test pass normally, but fail under cobertura > > Noooo > > have you got parallel threads in your code? > > bet you have even if you thing you have not! > > bet you have not read Java Concurrency In Practice and have an unintended > synchronization side-effect that is currently letting your tests pass on > Sun's JVM... but they may fail on JRocket or IBM or when instrumented with > emma/clover/ or cobertura > > 2008/9/25 Edelson, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Thanks Stephen. >> >> Pretty sure it's not a timeout. >> >> I agree that tests should be able to be run any number of times. And in >> fact "mvn clean test test test test" works fine. It's "mvn >> cobertura:cobertura" which doesn't - and that only runs tests once. >> >> Justin >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Stephen Connolly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *Sent:* Thu 9/25/2008 3:09 AM >> *To:* user@mojo.codehaus.org >> *Subject:* Re: [mojo-user] test pass normally, but fail under cobertura >> >> I have seen tests fail under cobertura when: >> >> 1. Tests have timeouts >> >> 2. Tests make incorrect assumptions about how the JVM memory model and >> synchronization work (or don't) >> >> This second one is why I always say run your tests twice ;-) >> >> 2008/9/25 Edelson, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> I've been struggling for the past 2 days with a set of Spring-based >>> integration tests that pass when run normally (i.e. mvn test), but fail when >>> run using the cobertura plugin. >>> >>> I recognize this is a shot in the dark, but if anyone has any ideas on >>> things I can try, I'd appreciate it. >>> >>> Specifically, I'd be interested in any differences in the classpath >>> between a normal test run and the cobertura test run. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin >>> >> >> >