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Gradle Essentials

You're reading from Gradle Essentials Master the fundamentals of Gradle using real-world projects with this quick and easy-to-read guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982363

Length 176 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Gradle

Concepts

Build Automation

Authors (2):

Abhinandan Maheshwari

Kunal Dabir

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Running Your First Gradle Task FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Java Projects

3. Building a Web Application

4. Demystifying Build Scripts

5. Multiprojects Build

6. The Real-world Project with Gradle

7. Testing and Reporting with Gradle

8. Organizing Build Logic and Plugins

9. Polyglot Projects

Index

Code coverage

There are so many coverage tools available for source code analysis such as EMMA, Corbatura, JaCoCo, and so on. In this section, we'll cover Gradle integration with JaCoCo to find the source code analysis.

Before we get started, we need to understand what code coverage is and why it is important in the test-driven development.

Code coverage is a metric that we can use to check how much of the source code was tested. Higher code coverage means a greater percentage of our code has been tested. Code coverage is typically done in the unit testing cycle. During code coverage, a developer must ensure that different logical paths in the source code have been tested and verified to achieve better code coverage.

Here, it is important to understand that the code coverage is not directly related to code quality. High code coverage does not guarantee that the quality code has been written. A developer must use static code analysis tools such as PMD (https://pmd.github.io/) to find the quality...

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Authors (2)

Dabir

Dabir

Kunal Dabir has over 10 years of experience working with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. Currently, he works as a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is a Java user group's co-organizer and speaks at various meet-ups and conferences. While he is always eager to learn a new language, he usually codes in languages such as Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, and Java. He frequently contributes to open source projects and also hosts his own projects on GitHub. He has always been passionate about automating and scripting. From there, he got a knack for build tools. Apart from Gradle, he has spent a fair amount of time writing build scripts with tools such as Ant, Maven, Grunt, and Gulp. He was introduced to Gradle in 2011 while using Gaelyk. Since then, Gradle has become his tool of choice for build automation. He can be found on Twitter and GitHub as @kdabir.

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Maheshwari

Maheshwari

Abhinandan is a Java guy with extensive experience in software design, architecture, and deployment and automation framework. He is passionate about providing solutions for different business needs. His other passions include hiking, reading and travelling. You can contact him at designationtraveller@yahoo.com Like a film cannot be made with just actors and directors, it requires lots of different team member's help, who supports at different stages till the movie get published, in the similar way book is not just effort of one person or the author. It requires lots of support from different people at different stages without which it would not be possible to put the thoughts on the paper and made it available to audience First and foremost, I would like to thank my family for all the support they gave me throughout this book. They never complained about the weekends, vacations which I compromised while working on the book. I would like to express my gratitude towards the PactPub publisher team (Parita, Purav, Rashmi), who provided support, from the initiation of the idea till the publication of the book. I appreciate that they believed in me and provided me the opportunity to become to become the coauthor of this book. I would like to thank the reviewers who helped me to improve the quality of the book. Thanks to Mainak, for the quality inputs and comment, which helped to make this book complete. I could not have done it without you.

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