NA-MIC-kit-curriculum/Testing-Based Programming/How to run Code Coverage
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Introduction
Overview
This tutorial shows how to run Code Coverage in your project.
Code coverage is a mechanism for counting the number of lines of code that are exercised during the execution of your tests.
Prerequisite
You should read first the tutorial:
You should also have installed the package
gcov
this is usually installed along with your gcc package
Configuring the Test
In the project that you built in the previous tutorial, do
cd ${BINARY_DIR} make edit_cache
Enable Debug
Then search for the variable
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
and set it to the word "Debug"
Set Coverage Options
- Pass to the advanced mode by hitting the "t" key
- Hit the "/" key in order to start a search
- Type CXX_FLAGS
- Hit the ENTER key to start editing the flags
- add the following test: -g -O0 -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
- Hit the "/" key in order to start a search
- Type C_FLAGS
- Hit the ENTER key to start editing the flags
- add the following test: -g -O0 -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage