TestCocoon support for KDE build system

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Sep 15 10:28:15 UTC 2011


Hi Sebastien,

On Saturday, August 27, 2011 05:09:12 PM Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Sébastien Fricker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I guessing if there are some interests to integrate a support of
> > TestCocoon into the KDE build system.
> > 
> > TestCocoon is an open source code coverage tool which includes a
> > graphical interface and which instrument C++ applications up to the
> > decision/condition level.
> > TestCocoon would permit to collect the coverage information of the unit
> > test of the KDE project but also from each beta tester. This would give
> > a better overview of the test quality. Also it is possible to work on
> > differences between two releases, this permits to check if a hot fix is
> > correctly tested.

So, this is an alternative coverage tool ?
Then first support for that should be added to cmake/ctest/cdash, I guess ?
The cmake developers are usually very interested in stuff like that.
Did you already contact them on the cmake or cmake-developers mailing list ?

Alex


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