JaCoCo comparisons
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JaCoCo is compared head-to-head with Codecov, Coveralls and ReportGenerator and more: 7 head-to-heads in Test Coverage Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
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JaCoCo head-to-head
- JaCoCo vs Codecov
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JaCoCo vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Coverage types | Supported languages | Report formats | Pull-request annotations | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | JaCoCo | Yes | None | instruction, branch, complexity, line, method, class | Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Scala | HTML, XML, CSV | — | 7.1 |
| 1 | Codecov | Yes | — | line, branch, project, patch | Bash, C, C#, C++, Clojure, D, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, Fortran, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Lua, MATLAB, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Salesforce, Scala, TypeScript, Vala, Xcode, Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, Groovy | XML, JSON, TXT | Yes | 10.0 |
| 2 | Coveralls | Yes | $10/mo | line, branch | .NET, C/C++, D, Elixir, Erlang, FORTRAN, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Objective-C, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, Smalltalk, Swift | LCOV, SimpleCov, Cobertura, JaCoCo, Gcov, LuaCov, Golang, Coveralls JSON, Pytest-Cov, Clover XML | Yes | 9.2 |
| 3 | ReportGenerator | Yes | — | line, branch, method, full method, MC/DC | .NET, Java, Node.js | HTML, Clover, Cobertura, OpenCover, SonarQube, TeamCity, lcov, XML, JSON, LaTeX, text, CSV, Markdown, SVG, badges | — | 7.7 |
| 4 | OpenClover | Yes | None | method, statement, branch, global, per-test | Java, Groovy, AspectJ | HTML, XML, PDF, JSON, TEXT | — | 7.4 |
| 6 | Coverage.py | Yes | None | statement, branch | Python | text, HTML, XML, LCOV, JSON | — | 6.9 |
| 7 | SimpleCov | Yes | None | line, branch, method, oneshot-line, eval | Ruby | HTML, JSON | — | 6.8 |
| 8 | Coverlet | Yes | None | line, branch, method | — | json, lcov, opencover, cobertura, teamcity | — | 6.5 |
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