Monitoring autotest coverage in frameworks

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

Am 1. März 2012 00:44 schrieb Dario Freddi:
> I was wondering if we already had a way to generate reports on
> autotests coverage using lcov/gcov in frameworks. Looking at our cmake
> infrastructure, I spotted a build mode "Profile" which should
> apparently set the correct compiler flags (but actually, at least for
> me, it didn't work), I didn't go as far as seeing if it also forces
> every library to build static. Instead, there seems to be no mention
> of a lcov target.
>
> Question time: is anybody already working on this? I think it's quite
> important for us to have such a thing, and I'd be happy to provide
> patches for this to happen (would be cool if Alex or any other
> buildsystem gatekeeper gave a word about how this should be done/where
> should it go).

it seems that measuring test coverage does work in kdelibs 4.x, at
least there are results submitted daily to CDash:

http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=kdelibs&date=2012-03-01

AFAIK, the results which CTest gathers during the tests using gcov are
written to an XML file (which is then submitted to CDash if you ran
the tests using, e.g., 'make Experimental').

Best regards,
Frank