Unit tests passing through Maven, but failing through Cobertura: “Expecting a stackmap frame at branch target 65”

Question

I recently added the Cobertura plugin to my Java/Spring-MVC project. The strange thing is that all my unit tests were passing, and they still pass when Maven does its initial t

Answer 1

Of course I find the answer right after asking the question, even though I searched for quite awhile before...

The problem is that Cobertura has trouble working with Java 1.7. You must add the following line to your pom.xml:

-XX:-UseSplitVerifier

That goes in the configuration element. Here is the entire Cobertura section:

     
        org.codehaus.mojo
            cobertura-maven-plugin
            2.5.1
            
                -XX:-UseSplitVerifier
                
                    xml
                
            
            
                
                    test
                    
                        cobertura
                    
                
            
       

Now everything works as expected.