Getting Started
If you are new to Clover and want to get it going quickly, try the following:
- The Ant Quick Start Guide, the Maven Quick Start Guide and Clover-for-Grails Quick Start Guide will show you how to quickly set-up Clover in your builds.
- The Clover for Eclipse in 10 minutes and the Clover for IDEA in 10 minutes will show you how to use Clover in Eclipse/IDEA as well as briefly describe reports generated by Clover.
- The About Code Coverage section provides a brief background on the theory and motivation behind Code Coverage.
- The Understanding Reports page gives more details about an HTML report generated by Clover
- The Clover Tutorial provides a good alternative introduction to Clover.
For help with Ant, see the online Ant manual at https://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html. Also recommended reading is Eric Burke's Top 15 Ant Best Practices.
For Clover troubleshooting information, see the Atlassian Community and Clover Knowledge Base. Still no luck? Raise a ticket for our team.
System Requirements and Supported Platforms
See the Clover-for-Ant Installation Guide and Supported Platforms.
What's New in Clover?
See the Clover Release Notes.
Acknowledgments
Clover makes use of the following excellent third-party libraries:
| Apache Ant | The Ant build system. |
| ANTLR | A public domain parser generator. |
| Apache Commons | A set of reusable Java components. |
| Apache Velocity | Template engine used for HTML report generation. |
| Cajo | A lightweight library for multi-machine communication. |
| FastUtil | A library for high-performance operations on primitive types. |
| Groovy | An agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine. |
| GSON | A library converting Java objects into their JSON representation. |
| Guava | Google's core libraries for collections, caching, primitives support, string processing, I/O etc. |
| iText (2.0.1) | A library for generating PDF documents. |
| JCommon / JFreeChart | An open source library for generating charts. |
| JDOM | A library for accessing, manipulating, and outputting XML data from Java code. |
| TheJIT | An open source toolkit for creating interactive data visualizations. |
To prevent library version mismatches, all of these libraries have been obfuscated and/or repackaged and included in the Clover JAR. We do this to prevent pain for users who may use different versions of these libraries in their projects.