Is there still no solution for ignoring setter/get

Question

Did someone find a good solution to ignore trivial methods?
Using some automated testing like Unitils is not really an option, since the code-coverage should not go up if only getters/setters are tested!

Using cobertrua-maven-plugin version 2.5.1:
-) ignore for methods does not work <ignore>com.company.*.set*</ignore>
-) did anyone try to include a patch like http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3010530&group_id=130558&atid=720017 into the maven-plugin?
-) anyone uses a different (better?) test-plugin?

A general ignore for every get/set/is* method is also not really a good way, since these patterns can be used in other methods but simle getter/setters. Also it should be easy to guess trivial getters/setters/constructors.

I know about the question: Ignore methods in class. cobertura maven plugin but since it did not get any relevant answers, I thought I give it another shot.

Answer 1

Since Cobertura 2.0 there is a switch to exclude trivial methods:

[Cobertura Changelog] New --ignoreTrivial switch that tells Cobertura to ignore the following in the coverage report: Getter methods that simply read a class field; Setter methods that set a class field; Constructors that only set class fields and call a super class constructor.

The cobertura-maven-plugin uses Cobertura 2.x since version 2.6 (see release notes). But i have not yet found a way to pass the switch to the maven plugin configuration.

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Although there seems to be some confusion about the state of this feature (see this Jira issue), the flag does seem to work with the following configuration:

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
  <instrumentation>
    <ignoreTrivial>true</ignoreTrivial>                 
  </instrumentation>
</configuration>

Answer 2

The exclusion problem was fixed here:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOBERTURA-52

and it's part of the latest release (2.5.2). It's available since 10 Sept. 2012:

http://search.maven.org/#search|gav|1|g%3A%22org.codehaus.mojo%22%20AND%20a%3A%22cobertura-maven-plugin%22