Actually, hold on, the main reason it wasn't working was because I was
an iidiot!!!!!!
blah.
Look how I had the execution code inside the configuration code! DOH!

Thanks though for your patience. One of those cases where explaining
what I was doing to someone pointed me to my error.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Stephen Connolly
<[email protected]> wrote:
> "clean" is the only phase on the clean lifecycle.
>
> you want a phase on the build lifecycle...
>
> Also, you want a phase after the tests have been compiled, and probably
> after the tests have ran (to ensure you measure the coverage of working
> tests... coverage of broken tests is usually meaningless, as you are
> executing unplanned paths)
>
> Now for my standard disclaimer:
>
> "RUN THE DAMN TESTS TWICE!"
>
> I have seen:
>
> 1, Tests that fail when run without coverage but pass when run with
> coverage.
> 2. Tests that pass when run without coverage but fail when run with
> coverage.
>
> I have seen both 1 & 2 far more often that you think.
>
> In *MOST* cases of #1 and in about half the cases of #2 this has been
> because the developer did not understand the code optimizations that the JVM
> is allowed to make. In every one of these cases, switching to another valid
> JVM implementation has reproduced the issue.
>
> In the other half of the cases of #2 this has been because they are
> performance tests... and they would be expected to fail when coverage has
> instrumented the code.
>
> Do you have more than one thread? Run the tests twice.
>
> -Stephen
>
> 2008/12/22 Rick <[email protected]>
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Stephen Connolly
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > The Sonatype book is good, and available free online and there are other
>> > good tutorials.  A 3-4 hours quick skim is most definitely not a waste of
>> > your time.
>>
>> Actually I did read the sontatype book. I reread the chapter on "the
>> build lifecycle" and it sounds like (following what is described in
>> section 10.1) if I added the phase 'clean' and goal 'cobertura' that
>> it should run the cobertura goal when the mvn clean phase is reached?
>> Yes I don't see this happening. I even tried different phases.
>>
>> Under the plugin section under build I have (other plugins removed for
>> clarity)
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <build>
>>        <plugins>
>>                <plugin>
>>                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
>>                        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
>>                        <configuration>
>>                                <instrumentation>
>>                                        <excludes>
>>
>>  <exclude>com/foo/ondp/**/*Test.class</exclude>
>>                                        </excludes>
>>                                </instrumentation>
>>                                <executions>
>>                                        <execution>
>>                                                <phase>clean</phase>
>>                                                <goals>
>>
>>  <goal>cobertura</goal>
>>                                                </goals>
>>                                        </execution>
>>                                </executions>
>>                        </configuration>
>>                </plugin>
>>        </plugins>
>> </build>
>>
>>
>> If I manually run mvn cobertura:cobertura it runs fine.
>>
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