[Cobertura-devel] Cobertura-Instrument Ant Task Failing: Cannot find tasks.properties

[Zac H. <zac...@gm...>]

I am brand new to Cobertura and am getting what looks like a fairly common
error. The only problem is that the solutions I'm seeing posted online
don't seem to be helping me!

Here is my *cobertura.class.path*:

    <path id="cobertura.class.path">
        <fileset dir="lib/test">
            <include name="**/*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>

And here is my *code-coverage-setup* Ant target which defines *
cobertura-instrument*:

    <target name="code-coverage-setup">

        <taskdef classpathref="cobertura.class.path"
resource="tasks.properties" />

        <cobertura-instrument
                todir="generated/instrumented-bin/cobertura"
                datafile="generated/data/cobertura/cobertura.ser">

            <fileset dir="bin/main">
                <include name="**/*.class"/>
            </fileset>
        </cobertura-instrument>
    </target>

Then inside my primary *test* Ant target, I call *code-coverage-setup* as
the first item (prior to confiruing the *junit* element):

    <target name="test" depends="test-compile">

        <antcall target="code-coverage-setup"/>

        <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="no"
failureproperty="tests.failed">

        ...

    </target>

In the Ant build output I am getting the following printout when I run *test
*:

test:
code-coverage-setup:
  [taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource tasks.properties. It
could not be found.

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\me\Desktop\workspace\MyProject\build.xml:190: The following error
occurred while executing this line:
C:\Users\meDesktop\workspace\MyProjectbuild.xml:272: Problem: failed to
create task or type cobertura-instrument
Cause: The name is undefined.
Action: Check the spelling.
Action: Check that any custom tasks/types have been declared.
Action: Check that any <presetdef>/<macrodef> declarations have taken place.

Line 190 is the antcall to the *code-coverage-setup* target, and Line 272
is the line inside the *cobertura-instrument* element where the
*datafile*attribute is being set to
"generated/data/cobertura/cobertura.ser".

Relevant online searches seem to indicate that I am simply missing this *
tasks.properties* file.  My question: where is this file?!?! How do I
find/download it? Where should I place this file so that Ant/Cobertura can
pick it up and use it?

I downloaded the latest Cobertura distrib and did not see this properties
file anywhere inside of it. Please advise! And thanks in advance!

Zac