Clover 3.0 Early Access Program

This page is now obsolete – please refer to Official Release Notes for Clover 3.0.

What is the Clover 3.0 Early Access Program (EAP)?

The Clover 3.0 EAP gives developers a chance to try out Clover 3.0's features before Clover 3.0 officially ships. We encourage all developer's to try out Clover 3.0's new features.

What's new in Clover 3.0?

Clover 3.0 has the following new features:

Groovy support for Ant and Maven 2:

Clover 3.0 now provides support for Groovy. Most Clover-for-Ant tasks will now work on Groovy code and the Clover-for-Maven 2 plugin now supports Groovy code compilation and coverage report generation with Clover.

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If you already have Clover installed in an existing Java project, using Clover for Groovy should be a simple matter of replacing your existing clover.jar with the latest version. You will need to do a full, clean build first, ensuring that any existing clover database and coverage files have been removed.

If you are integrating Clover into a new build, then follow the Clover for Ant 2 Line Integration documentation before upgrading to the latest version.

• Download 3.0.0-m4

Maven 2

Like the Ant integration, the Maven 2 integration should also be a drop in replacement. Simply upgrade to the latest 3.0.0-mX version listed here: http://maven.atlassian.com/public/com/cenqua/clover/clover/ and do a full, clean build. You will need to ensure that the repository http://maven.atlassian.com/public/ is listed in your settings.xml if not already.

Updated Tutorial for Groovy

The existing 'Money Demo' tutorial (located in CLOVER_HOME/tutorial) has been updated with additional Groovy code for Ant and Maven 2. The Ant (build_completed.xml) and Maven 2 (pom_completed.xml) tutorial solution files contain examples of Groovy integration.

For Ant builds, your Groovy code will automatically be compiled if the GROOVY_HOME environment variable has been set and points to the location of your Groovy directory.

New Clover-for-Grails plugin:

Clover 3.0 now incorporates the new plugin for the Grails web application development framework. Grails project developers can now test their Groovy code using Clover to generate coverage reports. The Grails Clover plugin can either be configured on the command line or by including Clover-for-Ant-based instructions directly inside the BuildConfig.groovy file.

Getting Started with the Clover-for-Grails Plugin

We've provided some initial documentation on the Clover-for-Grails plugin below to help Grails developers get up and running with this plugin. Please refer to one of the following topics for more information: