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In my last blog post I gave details of how I user the modified coverage viewer in an automated build to follow the trend of code coverage over time. The trouble with this approach was that there was a problem either with the localConnection or the code that uses it and there was a wide variance of the values being reported. This post shows you how I fixed it by creating a headless coverage reporter that you can drop into your test harness and remove the need for a second application altogether.

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Posted by Paul BH at 05:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)
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In my last post, I gave you my elegant extension hack for generating EMMA style reports from FlexCover. This post covers the first route I took to incorporating this in my build process. It does work, but it's not very consistent in its reporting and I'll explain why at the end...

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Over the last few months I have adopted Hudson as my build machine of choice as it is just so easy to setup and administer. Another thing I really like is being able to watch the trend of the number of tests in my test harness over time. It's not the best metric, but it does act as a reasonable motivator.

A slightly less crude metric is code coverage, which measures the amount of an application that gets exercised when it's run. FlexCover is a very cool tool for this and props to my colleague - Alex Uhlmann and Joe Berkowitz of Allurent for the great work they've done. There is a great UI for exploring code coverage in detail and it can also export xml formatted reports on coverage.

The thing is, I want to be able to track this coverage over time in Hudson, just like I can with the number of tests. I achieved this by extending FlexCover to output EMMA formatted reports...

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I've been kind of quiet recently for three reasons:

• Its summer


• Work has been insanely busy


• I've been beavering away on a new plugin for eclipse

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About a year ago, I posted a six part series explaining how to set up a continuous integration process for your Flex projects. Since then I have been refining the process when I have had a spare moment. One of the hassles I found when trying to setup CI on a new machine was getting the python based flash log parser working. I decided to remove the python dependency altogether and create a jar that parses the flash logs.

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