diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f91df171a..83b086c8a 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -377,6 +377,21 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <instrumentation>
+            <excludes>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/CheckStyleTask*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/grammars/*.class</exclude>
+              <exclude>com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/gui/*.class</exclude>
+            </excludes>
+          </instrumentation>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>