With its default arguments, the GitLab CI template for Maven forces the use of [JaCoCo Maven Plugin](https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/maven.html)
to compute code coverage during unit tests execution.
In addition it makes the necessary to [integrate code coverage stats into your GitLab project](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/settings.html#merge-request-test-coverage-results)(report badge and viewable coverage in merge requests).
In addition it makes the necessary to [integrate code coverage stats into your GitLab project](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/testing/code_coverage.html#view-code-coverage-results-in-the-mr)(report badge and viewable coverage in merge requests).
If yo want to fix the JaCoCo plugin version or tweak the default configuration, you may have to configure the
[JaCoCo Maven Plugin](https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/maven.html) in your `pom.xml`, but be aware of the
