How do I generate Emma code coverage reports using Ant?

Question

How do I setup an Ant task to generate Emma code coverage reports?

Answer 1

Emma 2.1 introduces another way of obtaining runtime coverage information (.ec file). One can remotely request the data from the given port of the computer where an instrumented application is runnig. So there's no need to stop VM.

To get the file with runtime coverage data you need to insert the following snippet in your Ant script between running of your tests and generating coverage report:

Other steps are similar to Emma 2.0. They are perfectly described in previous post

More information on Emma 2.1 features: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=108932&release_id=336859