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What's New > Version 2021.03.03

Increased coverage and additional user guidance

Release date: Mar 29, 2021

Enhancements include increased coverage and additional user guidance

This release contains a number of enhancements, including increased coverage and additional guidance for new users including:

  • The ability to populate deep nested objects when covering chains of getter calls
  • Adding the Spring @DirtiesContext annotation when the test uses setters of the class under test
  • Now writing tests that provide coverage for anonymous and local classes
  • Producing more appropriate inputs forObject,List andMaparguments
  • Treating any controller parameter annotated with @RequestBody as a POJO, on which setters can be called.

For details, please see the Full Release Notes.

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Full Release Notes

Enhancements

  • Cover is now able to populate deep nested objects when covering chains of getter calls. [Ref: TG-13919]

  • Cover now adds the Spring @DirtiesContext annotation when the test uses setters of the class under test. [Ref: TG-13917]

  • Cover now treats any controller parameter annotated with @RequestBody as a POJO, on which setters can be called. [Ref: TG-13909]

  • Cover now writes tests that provide coverage for anonymous and local classes. [Ref: TG-13837]

  • Cover now produces more appropriate inputs for Object, List and Map arguments. [Ref: TG-13693]

  • CLI: Cover now provides an improved error message and guidance when provided entry point prefixes do not match any method. [Ref: TG-14005]

  • CLI: Cover is now able to increase coverage for methods which return ENUMs by specifying the --enable-value-coverage option. [Ref: TG-14001]

  • CLI: Cover is now able to increase coverage for methods which accept ENUMs by specifying the --enable-value-coverage option. [Ref: TG-14000]

  • CLI: Cover now performs early checks to identify if the project being analyzed has been built before attempting to write tests. [Ref: TG-13978]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Cover now shows usage guidance to help new users get started. [Ref: TG-13980]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Cover now allows tests to be written by selecting the ‘Write Tests’ option in IntelliJ’s ‘Diffblue’ menu. [Ref: TG-13958]

Resolved Issues

  • Resolved an issue which prevented Cover from writing tests for Spring classes with @Autowired Maps, Sets, and Lists. [Ref: TG-13838]

  • Resolved an issue where the project-under-test’s logging may interfere with Cover’s logging. [Ref: TG-13357]

  • CLI: Resolved an issue where Cover would fail to write tests when the Spring application spawns a new process. [Ref: TG-14057]

  • CLI: Resolved an issue where Profiles defined in test resources of Spring Gradle projects was not considered when using the --active-profiles option. [Ref: TG-13937]

  • CLI: Resolved an issue where Cover’s environmental checks may fail due to file permissions on Windows. [Ref: TG-13786]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Resolved an issue which caused the “It looks like you haven’t used Cover in the last 2 weeks” form to appear more than once. [Ref: TG-14072]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Resolved an issue which, in some circumstances, provokes IDEA error reports due to an AssertionError. [Ref: TG-14060]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Resolved an issue which, in some circumstances, provokes IDEA error reports due to an NullPointerException. [Ref: TG-14053]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Resolved an issue where user defined system properties and memory options were not applied to the project being analyzed. [Ref: TG-13904]

Known Issues

  • CLI: Windows: creating config.json by outputting --example-config as file causes exceptions. [Ref: TG-11198]

  • CLI: All tests may be discarded in test validation when using --config. [Ref: TG-11475]

  • CLI: dcover clean --working-directory throws an error if --test-output-dir is not provided. [Ref: TG-11665]

  • CLI: Cover fails to generate tests, reporting java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, when analyzing projects which spawn a quantity of threads in excess of the operating system’s process thread limit. [Ref: TG-11680]

  • CLI: dcover clean --failing fails when used with a Gradle project. [Ref: TG-11707]

  • IntelliJ Plugin: Diffblue Cover was unable to create an index error may appear if switching project happens before Cover has finished indexing. [Ref: TG-13772]