Android-Root-Coverage-Plugin

Automatically configures Jacoco code coverage tasks for both combined and per module coverage reports.

Configuring Jacoco for Android projects is unfortunately not always easy. It is very common to find multi-module Android projects where one module has tests for code found in another module, for example integration/UI tests that cover code in multiple other modules. Configuring Jacoco for such a case is not always straight forward, you need to point Jacoco to the right sources, execution data and class files, not to mention how error prone manual Jacoco setups can be. This plugin automatically configures Jacoco for you, so you don't have to.

Feature highlights:

• Include unit-tests, instrumented unit-tests or both in the final reports
• Support for combined coverage reports (code in module X is covered when touched by tests from any other module)
• Support for coverage reports per module (code in module X is only covered when touched by tests from module X)
• Custom package/class filters
• Support for mixed build-types

1. Setup

Apply the plugin to your top-level (root project) build.gradle file using one of the following methods:

Plugin block:

// Below buildscript {}
plugins {
    id "nl.neotech.plugin.rootcoverage" version "1.6.0"
}

classpath + apply:

apply plugin: 'nl.neotech.plugin.rootcoverage'

buildscript {
   dependencies {
      classpath 'nl.neotech.plugin:android-root-coverage-plugin:1.6.0'
   }
}

2. How to use

1. Enable running tests with code coverage This is required so that code will be instrumented, but also to tell this plugin to include modules that have at least on of these properties enabled in the final report (or individual reports)

   android {
       buildTypes {
           debug {
               // AGP 7.3+ (at least one should be true for this module to be included in the reporting)
               enableUnitTestCoverage true
               enableAndroidTestCoverage true
   
               // AGP before 7.3
               testCoverageEnabled true
           }
       }
   }

   Only Android modules (com.android.application or com.android.library) are supported, this plugin will not execute tests and generate coverage reports for non-android modules. Also keep in mind that by default this plugin is configured to create reports for the debug variant, so coverage must be enabled for the debug variant, unless you change this (Configuration).

2. Run one of the automatically configured Gradle tasks to generate a Jacoco report:

   • For combined coverage: ./gradlew :rootCoverageReport
   • For module specific coverage (all modules): ./gradlew coverageReport
   • For module specific coverage (single module): ./gradlew :yourModule:coverageReport

   Resulting reports can be found in /build/reports/ and yourModule/build/reports/

3. Optionally configure the plugin to change the output types, test variants and more, see Configuration.

3. Configuration

By default the plugin generates code coverage reports using the build variant debug for every module. However in some cases different build variants per module might be required, especially if there is no debug build variant available. In those cases you can configure custom build variants for specific modules:

rootCoverage {
   // The default build variant for every module
   buildVariant "debug"
   // Overrides the default build variant for specific modules.
   buildVariantOverrides ":moduleA" : "debugFlavourA", ":moduleB": "debugFlavourA"

   // Class & package exclude patterns
   excludes = ["**/some.package/**"]

   // Since 1.1 generateHtml is by default true
   generateCsv false
   generateHtml true
   generateXml false

   // Since 1.2: Same as executeTests except that this only affects the instrumented Android tests
   executeAndroidTests true

   // Since 1.2: Same as executeTests except that this only affects the unit tests
   executeUnitTests true

   // Since 1.2: When true include results from instrumented Android tests into the coverage report
   includeAndroidTestResults true

   // Since 1.2: When true include results from unit tests into the coverage report
   includeUnitTestResults true
   
   // Since 1.4: Sets jacoco.includeNoLocationClasses, so you don't have to. Helpful when using Robolectric
   // which usually requires this attribute to be true
   includeNoLocationClasses false
}

4. Compatibility

Version	Android Gradle plugin version	Gradle version
1.6.0	7.3	7.4+
1.5.3	7.2	7.3+
See note 2	7.0-7.2-alpha05	n.a.
1.4.0	4.2 4.1	6.7.1+ 6.5+
1.3.1	4.0 3.6	6.1.1+ 5.6.4+
1.2.1	3.5	5.4.1+
1.1.2	3.4	5.1.1+
1.1.1	3.3	4.10.1+
1.0.2	3.2	4.6+

Note 1: Plugin versions below 1.3.1, such as 1.3.0, are only available on the Gradle Plugin Portal (maven { url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"}) and not on Maven Central. These versions use the group ID org.neotech.plugin and plugin ID org.neotech.plugin.rootcoverage!

Note 2: Android Gradle Plugin version 7 till 7.2.0-alpha05 suffered from a bug that caused instrumented coverage in Android library modules to fail, this has only been fixed in Android Gradle Plugin 7.2.0-alpha06. This means there is no stable working plugin version available for these AGP versions.

Note 3: Android Gradle Plugin versions before 3.4.0-alpha05 are affected by a bug that in certain conditions can cause Jacoco instrumentation to fail in combination with inline kotlin methods shared across modules. For more information see: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109771903 and https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/110763361. If your project is affected by this upgrade to an Android Gradle Plugin version of at least 3.4.0-alpha05.

4. Bintray/JCenter shutdown

Due to the shutdown of Bintray/JCenter the Android-Root-Coverage-Plugin has been migrated to Sonatype's Maven Central repository. Unfortunately this also meant that the group ID used by the Android-Root-Coverage-Plugin had to be changed from org.neotech.plugin to nl.neotech.plugin. The plugin ID has also changed from org.neotech.plugin.rootcoverage to nl.neotech.plugin.rootcoverage.

JCenter is supposed to stay available as read-only repository, however it is probably better to migrate to the Gradle Plugin Portal, since all version of this plugin are also available there:

pluginManagement {
   repositories {
      gradlePluginPortal()
   }
}

Version 1.3.0 has been re-released (as 1.3.1) with the new group ID and plugin ID to Maven Central and the Gradle Plugin Portal. Upcoming versions will also be released to Maven Central and the Gradle Plugin Portal. Check the setup section on how to use this plugin with the updated group ID and plugin ID.

5. Development

Want to contribute? Great! Just clone the repo, code away and create a pull-request. Try to keep changes small and make sure to follow the code-style as found in the rest of the project.

How to test your changes/additions? The plugin comes with an integration test and unit tests. You can run these tests either by executing ./gradlew clean test or run the test directly from Android Studio (or IntelliJ IDEA).