Re: [Cobertura-devel] historical report support

[Marc P. <mpo...@ic...>]

John,

> Why couldn’t you use the File.lastModified() time of the cobertura.ser
> file?
>
Actually I'm playing around with a pattern in the name of the file for the
time being ;-)

>  On another note, I am a little concerned that future releases of Cobertura
> may change the structure of what is in the cobertura.ser file.   It is more
> likely that backwards compatibility with the XML report is maintained.
>
I thing I understand your concern; one possibility could be to use some sort
of "generic" data structure containing some meta-information about the
instrumentation "run"; for example, an optional instance of JAVA Properties.
The content of these properties could be populated using some mechanism with
the <cobertura-instrument> task.

Then, using these meta-information, we can build new dimensions for
reporting purpose; for example we could track code coverage rates according
to the SVN revision number, time, etc...

Thanks for your attention,
_marc