The issue is that cobertura.exclude
is to exclude files/classes in your project from being instrumented.
What you want to use is cobertura.ignore
, e.g.,
cobertura.ignore 'java.util.logging.*'
which accepts a regular expression of class/method name to ignore.
From the Ant task documentation at https://github.com/cobertura/cobertura/wiki/Ant-Task-Reference:
You can tell Cobertura to ignore certain classes by passing in
"ignore" regular expressions. The ignore pattern can be any valid perl
5 regular expression. This will ignore any calls to any method that
matches the ignore regular expression. It will NOT skip over these
classes during instrumention. To exclude classes from being
instrumented, either exclude them from your fileset or use the
alternative method below and specify an excludeClasses pattern.