Re: [LTP] coverage history

[Peter O. <ob...@li...>]

On 05.11.2012 16:33, John Schmitt wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:21:49PM +0100, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
>> On 30.10.2012 01:39, John Schmitt wrote:
>>> Is there a way to generate track the coverage of a project over time?  If I'm writing unit tests as my code base expands, can I see how my coverage of that code base goes up or down over time as reported by lcov?
>>
>> There is no integrated way to track coverage changes over time with
>> lcov, although this may be a good idea for a future improvement.
>>
>> For now, you could manually extract the coverage results using the
>> --summary or --list option of lcov and put that into a spreadsheet.
>
> Thank you, Peter, this is the best advice I've received.

You're welcome!

> I see the --list option in lcov but I don't see a --summary.  Are you referring to --function-summaries which gcov takes?

The "lcov --summary <filename>" option comes with lcov 1.10. It shows 
coverage rates for all of a file, while --list shows the information for 
each file.


Regards,
   Peter

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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on System z Development - IBM Germany