Exclude specific methods from code coverage from cobertura?

Question

I was trying to ignore all the toString() methods from instrumentation using following configuration. This wasn't really working? This is using cobertura as maven plugin. This was based on a previous answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951569/exclude-code-from-code-coverage-with-cobertura.

<instrumentation>
    <ignores>
        <ignore>toString</ignore>
    </ignores>
</instrumentation>

What do you think I'm doing wrong. I wasn't able to find an example for this on the cobertura documentation.

Answer 1

Have you tried using a "Base Object" that all your objects extend, which has an implementation of toString using Apache Commons' ReflectionToStringBuilder (a very useful api by the way)?

That way, you can just ignore all methods on the base object in a similar way to how the question you linked suggests.