The typical way to use the Clover plugin is by registering a Clover report in your 'project.xml' file, as follows:
<reports>
<report>maven-clover-plugin</report>
[...]
</reports>
Clover Goals
| Goal |
Description |
| clover |
This is the default goal. It compiles the project code with Clover, executes the unit tests and generate Clover reports by calling the clover:report goal. |
| clover:test |
Compiles the project code with Clover and executes the unit tests. |
| clover:test-single |
Execute a single unit test and view the test coverage result directly using the Clover Swing viewer. This is useful if you wish to quickly see the action that a single unit test has on the code it tests. |
| clover:report |
Generate Clover test coverage reports with Clover. There are 3 possible reports: HTML, XML or Swing. Whether a report is generated is controlled by the maven.clover.report.ReportName properties. The generated reports show exactly what lines of your code were exercised by your tests. |
| clover:xml-report |
Generate an XML test coverage report with Clover. |
| clover:html-report |
Generate an HTML test coverage report with Clover. |
| clover:swing-report |
Generate a Swing test coverage report with Clover. |
| clover:on |
Activates Clover, which means that any other plugin calling the Ant javac task will find its code compiled with Clover. This is useful for example to Clover Cactus tests: maven clover:on cactus. |
| clover:off |
Deactivates Clover, resetting back the normal javac compiler. |
| clover:check |
Fail the build if the test coverage percentage is below a defined threshold. |
| clover:save-history |
Saves a Clover history point that will then be used for generating history reports when the clover:report goal is called. |
| clover:merge |
Merges several Clover databases into one. This goal is meant to be called in the top level master project (multiproject). It is called automatically by the clover:multiproject goal. |
| clover:multiproject |
Runs Clover on a multiproject and merge the Clover databases.This goal does not generate a report; call clover:report for that or add Clover as a report in your POM. |