I found another solution for new Sonar versions where JaCoCo's binary report format (*.exec) was deprecated and the preferred format is XML (SonarJava 5.12 and higher). The solution is very simple and similar to the previous solution with *.exec reports in parent directory from this topic: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15535970/4448263.
Assuming that our project structure is:
moduleC - aggregate project's pom
|- moduleA - some classes without tests
|- moduleB - some classes depending from moduleA and tests for classes in both modules: moduleA and moduleB
You need following maven build plugin configuration in aggregate project's pom:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.8.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>prepare-and-report</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>report-aggregate</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report-aggregate</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/../target/site/jacoco-aggregate</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Then build project with maven:
mvn clean verify
And for Sonar you should set property in administration GUI:
sonar.coverage.jacoco.xmlReportPaths=target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml,../target/site/jacoco-aggregate/jacoco.xml
or using command line:
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.coverage.jacoco.xmlReportPaths=target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml,../target/site/jacoco-aggregate/jacoco.xml
Description
This creates binary reports for each module in default directories: target/jacoco.exec
. Then creates XML reports for each module in default directories: target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml
. Then creates an aggregate report for each module in custom directory ${project.basedir}/../target/site/jacoco-aggregate/
that is relative to parent directory for each module. For moduleA and moduleB this will be common path moduleC/target/site/jacoco-aggregate/
.
As moduleB depends on moduleA, moduleB will be built last and its report will be used as an aggregate coverage report in Sonar for both modules A and B.
In addition to the aggregate report, we need a normal module report as JaCoCo aggregate reports contain coverage data only for dependencies.
Together, these two types of reports providing full coverage data for Sonar.
There is one little restriction: you should be able to write a report in the project's parent directory (should have permission). Or you can set property jacoco.skip=true
in root project's pom.xml (moduleC) and jacoco.skip=false
in modules with classes and tests (moduleA and moduleB).