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