not kotest 100% related but `Kover` . Does anyone ...

# kotest

[Marc]

not kotest 100% related but Kover . Does anyone know how to set up configuration in order run tests each time a coverage report task is called?

[Emil Kantis]

I think you could do something like

tasks.withType<KoverReportTask>().configureEach {
   dependsOn(tasks.named("test"))
}

but I would ask in #gradle

[Javier]

Kover tasks are already set to run if you run the test task. Which is the use case to do the reversed flow?

[Marc]

oh nice! well I didn’t know that. In that case I wouldn’t need to do so 😄

[Javier]

Anyway I would check it with dry run and 0.7.0 alpha, as I haven’t checked if it will do the same with the new huge refactor

[thanksforallthefish]

Kover tasks are already set to run if you run the test task. Which is the use case to do the reversed flow?

really? I was thinking of looking at moving from jacoco to kover because jacoco is not very precise with kotlin code, but I don’t think it’s right to run coverage every time you run tests. at least, I don’t think it’s common to run all tests all the time, that is more CI job, but if you don’t run all the tests coverage is just a waste of time

[Marc]

I asume that this is somehow configurable, can’t ensure tho

[Javier]

Gradle allow disabling tasks easily, so it is easy to disable that behavior

[thanksforallthefish]

disclaimer: I did not start to look into anything yet 😄

[Marc]

I just tryed new kover 0.7, way easier to config

[Javier]

anyway I think it doesn’t consume a lot of time

[Javier]

could you run ./gradlew test —dry-run so we can check if that behavior is preserved?

[Marc]

this is the only kover related task in the output:

:feature:widgets:koverFindJar SKIPPED

[Marc]

but well eveything is SKIPPED IDKW

[Javier]

dry run is to know which tasks would run

[Javier]

but they are skipped

[Javier]

mmm looks like it is not running kover I think. Could you clean the reports and run test? Maybe kover runs only with check task 🤔

[Marc]

Ok let me try to clean everything and re-run

[Marc]

same output (sorry for the late response)

[Javier]

but without dry run

[Javier]

the reports are generated?

[Marc]

I doesn’t I had to generate them manually

[Marc]

I mean, by calling the gradle task

[Javier]

you mean you need to call the kover task manually, right?

[Javier]

then you should use the @Emil Kantis approach

[Marc]

KoverReportTask not present 😕

[Emil Kantis]

Oh, I'm using Kover 0.6.x. Maybe it's changed name

[Javier]

they renamed a lot of things in 0.7.0

[Javier]

you have to check the migration guideline, maybe they mention it

[Marc]

wait a second

[Marc]

I figured out that xml reports are skipped when calling task manually but html ones are generated

[Marc]

> Task :feature:widgets:koverXmlReportDevelopDebug SKIPPED
Task 'koverXmlReportDevelopDebug' will be skipped because no tests were executed
'kapt.generateStubs' is not used by the 'kotlin-kapt' plugin

[Javier]

tbh I haven’t used kover with android, so I am not sure about the behavior of kover on that land