diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index 5d7a187..7e67e81 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                    <groupId>net.sourceforge.cobertura</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>cobertura</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.9.4</version>
+                </dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3a2344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<project>
+    <target name="instrument">
+        <antcall target="instrumentAModule">
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-aql"/>
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-om"/>
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-metadata"/>
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-tools"/>
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-common"/>
+            <param name="module" value="asterix-transactions"/>
+        </antcall>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="report" depends="merge">
+        <property name="src.dir" value="src/main/java/"/>
+        <cobertura-report datafile="sum.ser"
+                          format="html"
+                          destdir="./target/report">
+            <!-- Add all modules that should be included below -->
+            <!-- fileset dir="./MODULE_NAME_TO_REPLACE/${src.dir}"/ -->
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-aql/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-om/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-metadata/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-tools/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-common/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-runtime/${src.dir}"/>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-transactions/${src.dir}"/>
+        </cobertura-report>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="merge">
+        <cobertura-merge datafile="sum.ser">
+            <fileset dir=".">
+                <include name="**/cobertura.ser"/>
+            </fileset>
+        </cobertura-merge>
+    </target>
+
+    <target name="instrumentAModule">
+        <property name="classes.dir" value="target/classes"/>
+        <cobertura-instrument todir="./${module}/${classes.dir}">
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-aql/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-om/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-metadata/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-tools/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-common/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-runtime/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+            <fileset dir="./asterix-transactions/target/classes">
+                <include name="**/*.class"/>
+            </fileset>
+        </cobertura-instrument>
+    </target>
+
+<property environment="env"/>
+    <property name="COBERTURA_HOME" value="/home/kfmohamm/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/cobertura/cobertura/1.9.4.1"/>
+    <property name="cobertura.dir" value="${COBERTURA_HOME}"/>
+    <path id="cobertura.classpath">
+        <fileset dir="${cobertura.dir}">
+            <include name="cobertura.jar"/>
+            <include name="lib/**/*.jar"/>
+        </fileset>
+    </path>
+    <taskdef classpathref="cobertura.classpath" resource="tasks.properties"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 35c6bc4..95f8103 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -128,5 +128,12 @@
 			<url>http://obelix.ics.uci.edu/nexus/content/repositories/algebricks-snapshots/</url>
 		</repository>
 	</repositories>
-
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.sourceforge.cobertura</groupId>
+            <artifactId>cobertura</artifactId>
+            <version>1.9.4</version>
+            <optional>true</optional>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
 </project>