Crowbar maven plugin

Crowbar plugin for maven projects. It runs test cases via Surefire, so it supports both JUnit3 and Junit4.

As of this moment, it generates a plaintext list of ranked components and a tree visualization with the diagnostic report for each module in a project.

Dependencies

Crowbar's internals depend on:

• Boost 1.55
• MPFR 3.1.2
• GMP 6.0

On OSX, you can install the dependencies by running the following command:

brew install boost mpfr gmp

Compilation and Installation

To compile the project and install it in your local maven repository, simply run the command:

mvn install

Usage

Add the following to your pom.xml:

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.crowbar</groupId>
        <artifactId>crowbar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <configuration>
          <barinel>true</barinel>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </pluginManagement>
</build>

To run the project's test cases and the crowbar analysis, execute the command mvn crowbar:test.

Connect to other servers

By default, crowbar-maven-plugin creates an internal InstrumentationServer. If you want the plugin to act solely as a client, just insert your InstrumentationServer port in the pom.xml. The following example sends the instrumentation information to a server listening on port 1234:

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.crowbar</groupId>
        <artifactId>crowbar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <configuration>
          <port>1234</port>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </pluginManagement>
</build>

Other configurations

Statement granularity (default is false):

<statementGranularity>true</statementGranularity>

Enable barinel (default is false):

<barinel>true</barinel>

Set the maximum number of diagnostic candidates to be considered (default is 2000):

<maxCandidates>10000</maxCandidates>

Report directory (default is ${project.build.directory}/crowbar-report):

<reportDirectory>/temp/reports</reportDirectory>

Add arbitrary JVM options to set on the command line:

<argLine>-Xmx512m</argLine>

Restrict classes allowed for instrumentation:

<classesToInstrument>
  <class>fully.qualified.ClassName</class>
  <class>fully.qualified.ClassName2</class>
</classesToInstrument>

Caveats

If the argLine parameter is set in the declaration of maven-surefire-plugin, it will override crowbar's request to add an agent to the test JVM. To circumvent this, you can add your JVM options in crowbar's argLine parameter.

The ExpectedException @Rule for Junit4 is not currently supported.

License

Distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE - see LICENSE.txt for further details.