Cobertura : xerces error

[glung]

I tried to run the "mvn clean cobertura:cobertura -P cobertura" on your test project.

It keeps failing with the following error.
I tried on both configurations :

• Mac with Mountain Lion
  -- Java version "1.6.0_51"
  -- Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
• CentOs
  -- java version "1.7.0_03"
  -- Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 14:51:28+0100)

Is this a known issue ?

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: fFeatures
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:372)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:325)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.findJarServiceProvider(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.ObjectFactory.createObject(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.newDocumentBuilder(Unknown Source)
at org.robolectric.AndroidManifest.parseAndroidManifest(AndroidManifest.java:118)
at org.robolectric.AndroidManifest.getTargetSdkVersion(AndroidManifest.java:259)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.pickSdkVersion(RobolectricTestRunner.java:293)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.getEnvironment(RobolectricTestRunner.java:267)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner.access$100(RobolectricTestRunner.java:57)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$2.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:190)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runNotIgnored(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:71)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:49)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$1.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:177)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:264)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:124)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.invokeProviderInSameClassLoader(ForkedBooter.java:200)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:103)

[glung]

FYI, a colleague told me it actually works with version 2.5.2

[dnkoutso]

2.5.2 of what? Can you provide more info?

[WonderCsabo]

Unfortunately cobertura 2.5.2 did not help me, but i found a working solution.

The root of the error is the xerxesImpl dependency, if we use another version, cobertura can run just fine. To fix the problem you should declare that version:

<dependency>
  <groupId>xerces</groupId>
  <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.1</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>