- When developing software it is useful to determine which
sections of the program the testsuites are exercising. Having
coverage information shows which sections of the code are being missed
by the tests. The GCJ compiler has an option to compile code to
produce this coverage information when the code is executed. The
gcov and lcov tools can analyze this information and produce either
text files or html that developers can analyze to determine whether
current tests are sufficient or whether additional tests are needed.
- To enable collection of coverage information the
following GCJ options are used: --coverage -g
- To produce coverage information for frysk, first configure
a build tree as described here
- The lcov-fixbld.sh shell script can be used to
change the Makefiles to build executables which will create coverage
information. Run make
in the build tree after running the script.
- Run the test suites with make
check. This will create the coverage information.
- lcov converts the gcov data, which is created by
running the test suites, into html files which are viewable on web
pages. lcov rpms are
available for Fedora. The advantages of lcov over gcov are:
- lcov creates
summaries showing the code coverage for each file.
- lcov makes it
easy to scan for unexecuted code by highlighting it in red
- lcov
results can be posted on a webpage.
- The
lcov.sh
shell script can be used
to create web pages from the *.gcno and *.gcda
information created by gcov.
- If a *.gcda file does not have an equivalent *.gcno
file then lcov will
complain. Running sh lcov.sh
fixup will clean these up.
- To create the info files used to create the web pages
run sh lcov.sh info. It
is possible that lcov will
complain if either a source file cannot be found or if no *.gcno and
*.gcda files are present in a directory. In this case it may be
necessary to remove offending directories from the info case in lcov.sh.
- To create the web pages run sh lcov.sh genhtml.
- Test results accumulate for succeeding testsuite
runs and lcov posts a
summary. To zero the test results run sh lcov.sh zero.
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