Add JaCoCo coverage enforcement and achieve 100% line coverage

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Summary

Adds the JaCoCo Maven plugin with enforcement thresholds (≥95% line, ≥85% branch) and writes new unit tests to close all coverage gaps. Test count goes from 63 → 106, and line coverage goes from ~71% → 100%.

Build config:

• JaCoCo plugin (0.8.11) added to pom.xml with prepare-agent, report (on test phase), and check (on verify phase) executions.
• Coverage gates: 95% line, 85% branch at BUNDLE level.

New test files (9):

• TodoViewControllerTest — 14 tests for the Thymeleaf view controller (was completely untested; biggest coverage gap at 61 missed lines)
• TodoResponseTest — fromEntity() branch coverage: overdue logic for PENDING/COMPLETED/CANCELLED/future due dates, null timestamps
• TodoTest — model lifecycle: onCreate, onUpdate (completedAt set/clear/preserve branches), toString
• DataInitializerTest — CommandLineRunner with empty vs. pre-populated repository
• GlobalExceptionHandlerTest — direct unit test for handleTodoNotFound and handleGenericException
• TodoNotFoundExceptionTest, TodoRequestTest, PriorityTest, TodoStatusTest — small gap-closing tests
• TodoApplicationTest — exercises main() entry point

Extended existing file:

• TodoServiceTest — added getTodosByStatus and getTodosByPriority tests (last 4 uncovered lines)

Final coverage: 100% lines (369/369), ~96% branches (55/57). The 2 missed branches are instruction-level in TodoService (not line-level).

Review & Testing Checklist for Human

• Verify JaCoCo check phase matches CI pipeline — the check goal runs during verify, not test. If CI only runs mvn test, the coverage gate won't enforce. Confirm mvn verify (or equivalent) is what CI executes.
• Review TodoApplicationTest — it calls TodoApplication.main(...) inside a @SpringBootTest, which boots the Spring context twice in the same JVM. This works but is unconventional; consider whether the existing TodoApplicationTests.contextLoads() already provides sufficient coverage and whether this test adds maintenance cost.
• Assess coverage-only tests for maintenance burden — some tests (enum value counts, getter/setter round-trips, assertThat(true).isTrue()) exist purely to hit coverage thresholds. Decide if these are worth keeping or if they'll become noise during refactors.

Suggested test plan: Run ./mvnw clean verify locally and confirm the build passes with JaCoCo check. Open target/site/jacoco/index.html to inspect per-class coverage.

Notes

• No production code was modified.
• The 95% line / 85% branch thresholds can be adjusted in the pom.xml JaCoCo check configuration if the team prefers different gates.

Link to Devin session: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/fc87ba68757648cd85137fd50a01f0e2
Requested by: @clivingston-cognition

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Devin Review found 1 potential issue.

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🔴 TodoApplicationTest.main() starts a second unmanaged ApplicationContext that leaks resources and binds port 8080

The mainMethodStartsContext test calls TodoApplication.main() which invokes SpringApplication.run() (TodoApplication.java:10), starting a second, fully real Spring ApplicationContext with an embedded Tomcat web server. The @SpringBootTest annotation already starts one context (with WebEnvironment.MOCK, which doesn't bind a port). The main() call starts a second context that will attempt to bind to port 8080 (the default from application.properties:3, not overridden by application-test.properties). This second context is never captured or closed, so it leaks for the rest of the test JVM's lifetime. If port 8080 is already in use (e.g., in a CI environment or when running alongside a local dev server), the test will fail with a BindException.

Prompt for agents

The test calls TodoApplication.main() inside a @SpringBootTest, which creates a second, unmanaged ApplicationContext that binds to port 8080 and is never closed. There are two common fixes:

1. Remove @SpringBootTest and just verify that main() can be called without throwing. To avoid port conflicts, pass --server.port=0 along with --spring.profiles.active=test, and capture the returned context to close it in a finally/try-with-resources block.

2. If the goal is just to get coverage on the main() entry point, use a simpler approach: invoke main() in a non-SpringBootTest context, capture the ConfigurableApplicationContext returned by SpringApplication.run (which main currently discards), and close it. Alternatively, just rely on the existing TodoApplicationTests.contextLoads() test which already verifies the context loads.

File: src/test/java/com/example/todo/TodoApplicationTest.java
Related: src/main/java/com/example/todo/TodoApplication.java (the main method)
Related: src/main/resources/application.properties (server.port=8080)
Related: src/test/java/com/example/todo/TodoApplicationTests.java (existing context load test)

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