[test-improver] Add JaCoCo code coverage reporting

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Implements the requirements from Issue #26.

Goal & Rationale

No coverage tooling was configured, giving maintainers zero visibility into which code paths are actually tested. This PR adds JaCoCo so every CI run produces an HTML/XML/CSV coverage report that can be downloaded as an artifact.

Changes

pom.xml — adds jacoco-maven-plugin 0.8.11 with two executions:

• prepare-agent (default initialize phase): instruments bytecode before Surefire runs tests
• report (bound to verify phase): generates HTML, XML, and CSV reports under target/site/jacoco/

.github/workflows/ci.yml — adds two steps after Run Tests:

1. Generate coverage report — runs mvn jacoco:report -B with if: always() so the report is generated even when pre-existing test failures exit non-zero
2. Upload coverage report — uploads target/site/jacoco/ as a CI artifact (coverage-report, 30-day retention)

Baseline Coverage (from this PR branch)

Metric	Covered	Total	%
Instructions	1 930	4 553	42%
Branches	141	397	35%
Lines	400	1 001	39%

Note: ~12% of instruction coverage comes from DataInitializer executing during @SpringBootTest setup — not from dedicated tests. Effective "intentional" coverage is lower. This is why Issue #20 (meaningful coverage) is the next priority.

Notable gaps visible in the report:

• Controllers: ~1% — only the Spring MVC setup path is hit, no endpoint tests
• UserService: ~1% — zero unit tests
• NotificationService: ~11% — very limited coverage

Trade-offs

• No minimum threshold configured (current ~35% branch coverage is below the 30% floor from Issue 🟡 [DEVOPS] Add code coverage reporting (JaCoCo) #26). Recommend raising threshold gradually after fixing Issue 🟠 [TECH DEBT] Test suite is unreliable - disabled tests, no assertions, no cleanup #20.
• No Codecov/Coveralls integration — the XML artifact enables that as a future step.

Test Status

Tests run: 38, Failures: 1, Errors: 1, Skipped: 7

Pre-existing failures (not caused by this PR):

• DateUtilsTest.testGetQuarter — off-by-one bug (Issue 🔴 [BUG] getQuarter() returns 0-3 instead of 1-4 (off-by-one bug) #6)
• TaskServiceTest.testGetTaskStatistics — division by zero (Issue 🔴 [BUG] ArithmeticException: Division by zero on empty project dashboard #3)

Coverage report generates successfully with if: always() even when tests fail.

Reproducibility

mvn test -B
mvn jacoco:report -B
# open target/site/jacoco/index.html

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Warning

Protected Files — Push Permission Denied

This was originally intended as a pull request, but the patch modifies protected files. A human must create the pull request manually.

Protected files

• pom.xml

• .github/workflows/ci.yml

The push was rejected because GitHub Actions does not have workflows permission to push these changes, and is never allowed to make such changes, or other authorization being used does not have this permission.

Create the pull request manually

# Download the patch from the workflow run
gh run download 28671834478 -n agent -D /tmp/agent-28671834478

# Create a new branch
git checkout -b test-assist/jacoco-coverage-setup-e48ff900304a51de main

# Apply the patch (--3way handles cross-repo patches)
git am --3way /tmp/agent-28671834478/aw-test-assist-jacoco-coverage-setup.patch

# Push the branch and create the pull request
git push origin test-assist/jacoco-coverage-setup-e48ff900304a51de
gh pr create --title '[test-improver] Add JaCoCo code coverage reporting' --base main --head test-assist/jacoco-coverage-setup-e48ff900304a51de --repo Study4/agentic-workflow-demo

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