Docs: Update generating test coverage reports
Old docs said to use maven. That doesn't work. We can't generate the
reports right now.
@@ -499,32 +499,21 @@ will contain your change.
. Push both branches to your remote repository.
. Run the tests with `./gradlew check -Dtests.bwc.remote=${remote} -Dtests.bwc.refspec=index_req_bwc_5.x`.
-== Coverage analysis
+== Test coverage analysis
-Tests can be run instrumented with jacoco to produce a coverage report in
-`target/site/jacoco/`.
+Generating test coverage reports for Elasticsearch is currently not possible through Gradle.
+However, it _is_ possible to gain insight in code coverage using IntelliJ's built-in coverage
+analysis tool that can measure coverage upon executing specific tests. Eclipse may also be able
+to do the same using the EclEmma plugin.
-Unit test coverage:
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-mvn -Dtests.coverage test jacoco:report
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-Integration test coverage:
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-mvn -Dtests.coverage -Dskip.unit.tests verify jacoco:report
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-Combined (Unit+Integration) coverage:
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-mvn -Dtests.coverage verify jacoco:report
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+Test coverage reporting used to be possible with JaCoCo when Elasticsearch was using Maven
+as its build system. Since the switch to Gradle though, this is no longer possible, seeing as
+the code currently used to build Elasticsearch does not allow JaCoCo to recognize its tests.
+For more information on this, see the discussion in https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/28867[issue #28867].
== Launching and debugging from an IDE
-If you want to run elasticsearch from your IDE, the `./gradlew run` task
+If you want to run Elasticsearch from your IDE, the `./gradlew run` task
supports a remote debugging option:
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