Re: GSoC: Introduction

[Dmitry V. L. <ld...@al...>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 08:36:45PM +0100, Israel vianney wrote:
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> Please I 've gone through the tests and test folder in the source code
> trying to understand the used format, I also checked on codecov what is
> left to be done as for the testing, then noticed some files with 100% miss
> but then in the cloned code the testing of those functions have been
> implemented. So it got me alittle confused. Please I will apreciate if
> someone can clarify things for me. I am not very verse with codecov. Thanks
> in advance

That's simple: the system where we gather coverage (by running tests using
strace built with configure option --enable-code-coverage) is provided by
travis, it's quite old and doesn't implement quite a few modern kernel
features.  That's the reason for the discrepancy of ~2% you can see
between the coverage displayed on codecov site and the coverage you can
gather yourself on a system with a fresh linux kernel.


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