[Cobertura-devel] Contributing to Cobertura / Build problems

[Benjamin M. <b.m...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,
I aim to start contributing to Cobertura in the near future. My
intention is to both help fixing bugs and developing new features.
Regarding new features, my primary proposition is to add finer
granular functionality to ignore lines of code for coverage, since
this is what I see is often needed for projects.

I am currently trying to build Cobertura from sources, but fail
because of failed test cases. I have a fresh checkout of master done
today (2017-01-08).
"mvn test" in folder "/cobertura" returns:

Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.012
sec - in test.performance.Test1
Results :
Failed tests:
  FunctionalConditionCoverageTest.testConditionCoverage:154->verify:158->verifyXml:181->verifyClass:229->verifyMethod:275
Expected line 22 to be ignored.
  IgnoreTrivialAntTest.test:104->assertNotIgnored:126->assertNotIgnored:122
getINVOKEVIRTUAL should not be ignored
  IgnoreTrivialFunctionalTest.ignoreTrivialTest:477->assertNotIgnored:519->assertNotIgnored:515
getINVOKEVIRTUAL should not be ignored
  SwitchFunctionalTest.noDefaultTest:474->AbstractCoberturaTestCase.assertConditionCoverage:64
expected:<[33% (1/3])> but was:<[25% (1/4])>
Tests in error:
  IgnoreMethodAnnotationAntTest.setUp:19->AbstractCoberturaAntTestCase.executeAntTarget:59
» Build
Tests run: 200, Failures: 4, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0

Some info on my build environment:
Ubuntu 16.04 64Bit, Kernel 4.4.0-57-generic, Maven 3.3.9, openjdk
version "1.8.0_111"

I would be glad if somebody takes the time to help me get started!

Kind regards,
Ben