I recommend that you consider using Cobertura for your coverage profiling needs, as it is actively maintained, and has a better feature-set.
cvprof is a source-line coverage profiler for Java code, released under the terms of the LGPL. cvprof is a rewrite of JVMDICover that works under J2SDK-1.2, J2SDK-1.3 and J2SDK-1.5 (beta).
JVMDICover was written by Joel Crisp and others.
cvprof is implemented using the Java2 JVMDI interface present in Sun's Java Virtual Machines. It is a native library, loaded into the JVM at startup. The reporting portion of cvprof is implemented in the Ruby language, and the coverage profile is stored in a BerkleyDB hash file.
This example cvprof report shows the coverage of a number of test-case classes.
A coverage report for JUnit, after profiling JUnit's own unit test suite.
Having obtained the source and compiled the library, you should ensure that the profiler plugin will be found by the JVM. If the library isn't installed in the system library path, this can be achived by adjusting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable. e.g., in bash,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/containing/library/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Then, invoke your JVM like this,
java -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xruncvprof some.class.Name
This will generate a coverage profile in a binary file called coverage.db, in the current directory. After the JVM has finished running, a coverage report can be generated from the coverage profile using the reporting tool,
cvprof_report.rb --sourcepath=path_to/source/files
This should produce an HTML report in a new directory called html_cvprof_report.
The profiler has only be tested under Linux. The software is not quite production quality yet, though there are no known crashing issues, and those features that exist work pretty well.
Tested successfully in,
Works partially in, (see below for known issues)
2004-04-27 cvprof-0.1.2.tar.gz ~287KiB
2004-04-19 cvprof-0.1.1.tar.gz ~29KiB
2004-04-11 cvprof-0.1.0.tar.gz ~17KiB
mkdir /tmp/cvprof ./configure --prefix=/tmp/cvprof make make install
This will install cvprof_report in /tmp/cvprof/bin and libcvprof.so in /tmp/cvprof/lib. If using this prefix, you will need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /tmp/cvprof/lib as explained above.
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