Testng, Emma, Cobertura, coverage and JDK 7 result in ClassFormatError and VerifyError

I had same problem using maven cobertura plugin. All tests failed when run from cobertura:report. But all tests succeeded when run directly from surefire plugin. As some of you already said the problem is that coberture byte code instrumentation of is not compatible with JDK7.

You can see here http://vikashazrati.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/quicktip-verifyerror-with-jdk-7/ that the exception is related to the "new type checker with StackMapTable attributes" (see: -X:+UseSplitVerifier JVM option in http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html).

So my solution is to configure surefire-plugin to always execute the tests with JVM arg "-XX:-UseSplitVerifier. It works well with and without cobertura instrumentation.

My surefire configuration in maven:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.12</version>
    <configuration>
        <argLine>-XX:-UseSplitVerifier</argLine>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I had the same issue. Fortunately beta works with JDK 7.
Update site link: http://download.eclipselab.org/eclemma/beta/2.0.0/update/
This link should be used in Eclipse:

Help -> Install new software... -> Add...

Rest should be easy ;)

I got Gradle 1.0M9, Java 7 and EMMA 2.1 working with the patches suggested here: using the jvm argument.

Details here... http://marcellodesales.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/running-emma-code-test-coverage-with-java-7-and-gradle-1-0m9/?preview=true&preview_id=179&preview_nonce=261e892908

configurations{
  emma
}

dependencies {
  // EMMS Code Coverage
  emma "emma:emma:2.1.5320"
  emma "emma:emma_ant:2.1.5320"
  ...
  testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.9'
}

test {
    // add EMMA related JVM args to our tests
    jvmArgs "-XX:-UseSplitVerifier", "-Demma.coverage.out.file=$buildDir/tmp/emma/metadata.emma", "-Demma.coverage.out.merge=true"

    doFirst {
       println "Instrumenting the classes at " + sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.absolutePath
       // define the custom EMMA ant tasks
       ant.taskdef( resource:"emma_ant.properties", classpath: configurations.emma.asPath)

       ant.path(id:"run.classpath") {
          pathelement(location:sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.absolutePath)
       }
       def emmaInstDir = new File(sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.parentFile.parentFile, "tmp/emma/instr")
       emmaInstDir.mkdirs()
       println "Creating $emmaInstDir to instrument from " +       sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.absolutePath
       // instruct our compiled classes and store them at $buildDir/tmp/emma/instr
       ant.emma(enabled: 'true', verbosity:'info'){
          instr(merge:"true", destdir: emmaInstDir.absolutePath, instrpathref:"run.classpath",
                metadatafile: new File(emmaInstDir, '/metadata.emma').absolutePath) {
             instrpath {
             fileset(dir:sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.absolutePath, includes:"**/*.class")
             }
          }
       }
       setClasspath(files("$buildDir/tmp/emma/instr") + configurations.emma +    getClasspath())
    }

    // The report should be generated directly after the tests are done.
    // We create three types (txt, html, xml) of reports here. Running your build script now should
    // result in output like that:
    doLast {
       def srcDir = sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs.toArray()[0]
       println "Creating test coverage reports for classes " + srcDir
       def emmaInstDir = new File(sourceSets.main.output.classesDir.parentFile.parentFile, "tmp/emma")
       ant.emma(enabled:"true"){
          new File("$buildDir/reports/emma").mkdirs()
          report(sourcepath: srcDir){
             fileset(dir: emmaInstDir.absolutePath){
                include(name:"**/*.emma")
             }
             txt(outfile:"$buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.txt")
             html(outfile:"$buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.html")
             xml(outfile:"$buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.xml")
          }
       }
       println "Test coverage reports available at $buildDir/reports/emma."
       println "txt: $buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.txt"
       println "Test $buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.html"
       println "Test $buildDir/reports/emma/coverage.xml"
    }
}

Running "gradle test" gives the following:

marcello@hawaii:/u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware$ gradle test
:compileJava
:processResources UP-TO-DATE
:classes
:compileTestJava
:processTestResources UP-TO-DATE
:testClasses
:test
Instrumenting the classes at /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/classes/main
Creating /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/tmp/emma/instr to instrument from /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/classes/main
Creating test coverage reports for classes /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/src/main/java
Test coverage reports available at /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/reports/emma.
txt: /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/reports/emma/coverage.txt
Test /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/reports/emma/coverage.html
Test /u1/development/workspaces/open-source/interviews/vmware/build/reports/emma/coverage.xml

BUILD SUCCESSFUL