skippy.io: Predictive Test Selection powered by JaCoCo

[Florian McKee]

Hi all,

I though I share a project I started recently:

• https://www.skippy.io 
• https://github.com/skippy-io

Skippy implements Test Impact Analysis / Predictive Test Selection for the JVM. The analysis part is mostly based on JaCoCo. I only add a very thin layer of static analysis to deal with corner cases like inlining of constants. While the ideas have been around for a while (https://martinfowler.com/articles/rise-test-impact-analysis.html), there has been a surprising lack of usable open source solutions in this area. 

I’ve put together some documentation how that all works: https://www.skippy.io/tutorials/

It’s actually pretty straightforward: JaCoCo does the hard part, I just stitch some things together. My initial solution was based on starting one build per test using Gradle’s Tooling API. Then I realized how easy it is to just call the JaCoCo agent during the execution of the test suite to capture per-test coverage data.

Would love to hear some feedback. And thanks for all the great work you've done with JaCoCo.

Florian

[Evgeny Mandrikov]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing and warm words!

And here you go - https://github.com/jacoco/jacoco/pull/1564 


Regards,

Evgeny

[Florian McKee]

Awesome, thank you!