Eclipse plugin for code coverage [closed]

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I search a code coverage plugin for eclipse. My question is simple:

Which plugin do you use with eclipse for code coverage and why ?

Edit (2015) - My current recommendation: EclEmma / JaCoCo.

Not sure why I didn't see this back in January 2012, as there was clearly active development with new versions consistently being reproduced even back then.

I've since become a bit frustrated with Cobertura / eCobertura, as development since seems to have stalled, with support for current Java versions starting to be somewhat lacking.

JaCoCo may have advanced since I last looked at this in 2012 (or I simply missed it entirely, or was looking at EMMA vs. JaCoCo) - but the current version provides excellent support built-in to Eclipse (provided by EclEmma) as well as many other IDEs, support for Apache Maven, Apache Ant, command-line, Java API, and many other third-party integrations. Please refer to the complete list at http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/integrations.html .

I am now switching some of my projects over to JaCoCo from Cobertura, and am very impressed by the integration and results - both in Maven reports as well as Eclipse. Not sure about competing solutions, but JaCoCo can even be configured to fail a build if certain thresholds of code coverage are not met.

JaCoCo is specifically documented to support Java class files from version 1.0 all the way through 1.8*.

I find their Mission Statement very respect-worthy.

References / Resources:

Especially as this question has unfortunately been closed, here is a mini-directory of some of the various references and resources that I used in making my decision - and which I encourage everyone here to refer to in order to make their own decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Code_Coverage_Tools - by Wikipedia's nature is more of a "living document", and will hopefully remain updated with any new related tools that may become available.
The following should also somewhat fall into the same category of a "living document", but fall under probable bias / conflicts of interest - as each is from the vendor or organization that also produces such a tool:
- http://www.eclemma.org/resources.html (Provides EclEmma, JaCoCo)
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CLOVER/Comparison+of+code+coverage+tools (Provides Atlassian Clover)
Presumably independent but dated reviews and comparisons:
- Code Coverage Tools (JaCoCo, Cobertura, Emma) Comparison in Sonar (2012-12-19, Patroklos Papapetrou, onlysoftware.wordpress.com)
- Eclipse plugin for code coverage (2012-01-28, stackoverflow.com)
- Test coverage: jaCoCo vs Clover2 (Jakub Kurlenda, 2010-12-28, kurlenda.blogspot.com)
- Java Code Coverage: Cobertura vs. Emma vs Clover (Tom Borthwick, 2010-10-23, copperykeenclaws.com)
- Pick your code coverage tool in Sonar 2.2 (2010-08-05, Evgeny Mandrikov, sonarqube.org)
- In pursuit of code quality: Don't be fooled by the coverage report (Andrew Glover, 2006-01-31, ibm.com)

Previous:

eCobertura.

It does the job, it is free and open-source, it is more up-to-date than EMMA, and it is used by most of the other online open-source projects I'm familiar with. It also integrates very well into Maven - including some rather nice-looking reports.

If you want to consider a commercial product, I'd consider Atlassian's Clover.