How does JaCoCo-Maven Plugin work?

How does JaCoCo-Maven Plugin work?

Hi Emma,

JaCoCo-Maven (abbreviation for Java Code Coverage) is an open-source code coverage tool that integrates with your IDE(Integrated development environment). It can be used to analyze code coverage across your entire codebase – automatically generating reports and charts.

The JaCoCo-Maven plugin works as a code coverage plugin. It runs tests of a Maven project and reports the progress using standard Maven syntax.

The below diagram shows the working of the JaCoCo plugin:

image

To deep dive into how to generate code coverage report using JaCoCo-Maven plugin, please go through the following blog:

2 Likes