Cannot use jacoco JVM args and surefire JVM args together in maven

Question

I am using maven with the jacoco plugin to generate code coverage metrics. I am having some difficulty in configuring the surefire plugin with the java opt

Answer 1

For me upgrading the version from 0.7.7.201606060606 to 0.7.9 also fixed this.

I had to explicitly add the version to the commandline (not just to the pom) because the build server kept using the old verison. This can be done as follows:

 org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin:0.7.9:prepare-agent

instead of

org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin:prepare-agent

The jacoco plugin site (for sonar) states that argline must be added as a property. For me it also worken when using the @{argLine} in the surefire plugin settings.