JaCoCo Pros and Cons

JaCoCo works very well at analyzing code coverage. It helps you find lines of code and control paths that still need to be covered by unit tests. High code coverage is a must to ensure your code is well tested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JaCoCo integrates well with Maven. It can be a little daunting for young engineers to figure out how to use the plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use the JaCoCo to identify how many lines of the code tested and missing test cases in the code. It will generate a nice report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be better to enhance Jacoco Report UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is free and open source tool for checking the code coverage of the application code. Provides very easy to read reports for each class files or lines of code. Can be easily integrated to any popular IDE'S. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be more elaborative while showing the branch coverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It check code coverage with unit tests and give very detailed and obvious reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is not very clear, and the support community is not available all time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JaCoCo is very easy to integrate and it tells us about the code coverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not give full information about the uncovered methods or code lines when running individually by the testing team (who don't have code access) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a free code coverage library for Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JaCoCo only writes the coverage file after the application is shut down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacoco provides accurate unit test coverage reports . It renders data in graphical views and textual views. Also, data can be generated in multiple formats like CSV, XML, HTML, etc. Furthermore, it integrates well with SonarQube to get coverage reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacoco works well with Junit4. It is a bit unstable with JUnit5 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very user-friendly library and can be easily used by any coder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes there are errors when instrumenting some Java classes. It take time to resolve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It drastically reduces the test case and uplifted the complaince of the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waterfall model approach required to further reduce test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Code coverage gathering capability without the necessity to prepare somehow codebase at the byte code level. Also, does code coverage at the condition level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's hard to analyze the results of report for custom purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.