EMMA with Junit, should I be testing with the instrumented classes or java classes?

Question

I\'ve been going through this tutorial for my ANT Script for emma/junit, it states

In the element of

Answer 1

Can you try replacing

<test 
name="test.nz.ac.massey.cs.sdc.log4jassignment.s06005586.AppenderLayoutTest"
todir="${coverage.dir}">

with

<batchtest>
    <fileset dir="${instr.dir}" includes="**/*Test.class" />
</batchtest>

Lastly I would ask you to put some sysout in your test and see what is going wrong in the test. This might something to do with configuration I feel.

Answer 2

Looking at the latest trace you shared it seems can use

-XX:-UseSplitVerifier

as VM argument to get rid of the error related to JDK7.

or Check this out