I'm doing unit testing for device drivers for that i need to use gcov and lcov tools to generate reports.I compiled my code in native machine and the .gcno files are generated perfectly.Then i executed my output file in a arm based board and the gcda files also generated correctly.Then i have taken those files to my native and i generated .gcov files.
But when i use lcov to that files it is showing errors like "negative length in /usr/src/geninfo line no 2414".
1.So,For this what i need to do.?.
2.And one more question is I'm using "arm-none-gnueabi-" toolchain(2011.03) for this it has gcov seperately but lcov is not present in the executables.Is it possible to use lcov.?.If yes how to use.?..Thanks in advance.
Once you are able to generate the .gcda & .gcno files correctly, you need lcov tool to capture the code coverage. Here you should cross compile your lcov tool and add it into the file system.
I am working on similar kind of task, where i am trying to capture the coverage for ARMv7 based system. I have used yocto for the build framework. In yocto, meta-oe layer provides the support of the lcov. you can add it into the conf/local.conf file by adding following line into the configuration file.
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "lcov"
after following all steps of your build, you will have the lcov tool on to the target board in /bin directory. Refer the lcov man page
You can use below command to generate the coverage files.
lcov --capture --directory <path-to-your-generated-files-dir> --gcov-tool /usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcov --output-file <file_name>
Above command will generate a file, if your target board does not have enough capability then you can copy the generated file into your build system.
At the build system,
you can execute below command to generate the HTML output with the exact coverage details,
genhtml <path_to_generated_file> --output-directory <out_dir>
Refer below links for more details about the GCOV & LCOV integration.
1. How to use GCOV & LCOV
GCOV in linux kernel
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We have a large body of C/C++ code that is cross-compiled for an embedded Linux target. We've recently begun implementing unit tests (using gmock/gtest) that are run on our development server (which is Linux as well). The unit tests are executed automatically when check-ins are detected (we're using Microsoft Azure pipeline).
We're using gcov and lcov to analyze & report code coverage during those unit tests, which has worked out fairly well. However, given that we didn't start out unit testing, a large portion of our codebase is not covered by unit tests. An interesting metric beyond "what is the unit test coverage for those files being unit tested" is "how much of our entire codebase is being covered by unit tests", which includes those files not currently being unit tested. With gcov, you need to actually compile & link a given source file and then execute the resulting program to get the possible coverage data for that file.
I have used the following script but it generates report for the classes that has unit test.:
# Get the path to the current folder
SCRIPT_DIR=$(pwd)
# SRC_DIR is the directory containing the .gcno files (%{buildDir} in Qt Creator)
SRC_DIR="$SCRIPT_DIR/../../build-KEBPLCComService-Desktop-Debug/"
# COV_DIR is the directory where the coverage results will be stored
COV_DIR="$SCRIPT_DIR/../coverage"
############################################################################################################
# Path where the HTML files should be saved
HTML_RESULTS="${COV_DIR}""/html"
# Create the html folder if it does not exists
mkdir -p ${HTML_RESULTS}
# Generate our initial info
lcov -d "${SRC_DIR}" -c -o "${COV_DIR}/coverage.info"
# Remove some paths/files which we don't want to calculate the code coverage (e.g. third party libraries) and generate a new coverage file filtered (feel free to edit it when necessary)
lcov -r "${COV_DIR}/coverage.info" "*Qt*.framework*" "*.h" "*/tests/*" "*Xcode.app*" "*.moc" "*moc_*.cpp" "*/test/*" "*/build*/*" -o "${COV_DIR}/coverage-filtered.info"
# Generate the HTML files
genhtml -o "${HTML_RESULTS}" "${COV_DIR}/coverage-filtered.info"
# Reset our counts
lcov -d "${COV_DIR}" -z
# Open the index.html
firefox "${HTML_RESULTS}/index.html"
How can i get code coverage for entire codebase?
I am writting a small C++ static library. Within GitHub Actions I have a "unit test" workflow which compiles and runs a test program and the code coverage is submitted to the Codecov service afterwards. It runs: g++ test.cpp library/library.cpp --coverage -o test, then ./test, followed by gcov -o . test.cpp. In the next step the results are submitted to my Codecov account with a standard bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) (having a CODECOV_TOKEN set as an env. variable). Everything works fine up to this point.
However, in the coverage I see reports for both .cpp and .h files inslide the library directory but also a coverage of the test.cpp. I am not interested in the coverage of my test code and it is skewing the statistics. Is there any way to submit only coverage reports of the library files?
There is no easy way to exclude files at the gcov level, but I solved the issue by restricting the codecov submission: https://docs.codecov.io/docs/ignoring-paths
I have lcov report of my c++ code on each of my integration tests. I would like to merge it in one global report, I know it is possible but it only adds up hit lines count. I wish to have the information about which test hit each line.
I dunno if there is a way instead of writing a script myself.
Thanks
You can use geninfo in combination with lcov to achieve something similar.
If you have both .gcno and .gcda files available then first we will need to generate .info files.
To generate .info files use :
geninfo "path for .gcda files" -b "path for the source files" -o ./coverage1.info
So this will generate .info for your first test. Similarly, generate .info for all of your tests.
Now you can use lcov to combine these info files and get a combined report. To do that use:
lcov --add-tracefile coverage1.info -a coverage2.info ...coverageN -o merged.info
Now you have combined .info file and you can use genhtml to generate a HTML report for better view.
genhtml merged.info -o CodeCoverage
I want to generate a coverage report for my github repo, it's a big C++ project built with CMake.
I add --coverage(equals to -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage) option to g++ build and link arguments in my CMakeLists.txt, and I use gcov to generate code coverage data and upload the data to codecov.io.
These automated builds and tests are done in my Jenkins CI. The related code of Jenkins's execute shell is here:
cmake -DCODE_COVERAGE=ON -Dasan=OFF -DNEBULA_ASAN_PRELOAD= ..
make -j8
ctest -j8
#generate code coverage report and upload it to codecov.io
TEST_FILES=$(find . -name '*.cpp.o')
#gcov -abcr $TEST_FILES
for test_file in $TEST_FILES; do gcov -abcr $test_file; done
curl -s https://codecov.io/bash | bash -s - -t c85ebdca-ec7c-4301-a6ed-7967cf175db5
When Jenkins excutes make -j8 and ctest -j8, and gcov -abcr $test_file I do get the related .gcno files, .gcda files, and gcov files. But when Jenkins excutes curl -s https://codecov.io/bash | bash -s - -t c85ebdca-ec7c-4301-a6ed-7967cf175db5 to upload the data files to codecov, the output seems strange. I see a lot of similar errors like:
ExecutionPlan.gcno:'_ZNK6nebula4cpp29ValueType8get_typeEv' has arcs to entry block
ExecutionPlan.gcno:'_ZNK6nebula4cpp29ValueType8get_typeEv' has arcs from exit block
And the -r option of gcov seems doesn't work because I also get a lot of coverage report of system header files.
And at the last the Jenkins tells me the build fails, so I can't see the coverage report in codecov.
Ps:
The source cpp files is not in the same directory with the .cpp.o(CMake's default C++ object type is .cpp.o not .o) files. And I do the above excute shell's code in the build directory, the .gcno, .gcda, and .gcov files are generated in the same directory.
Bucause the CMake's default object type is .cpp.o, the gcno and gcda files type generated is .cpp.gcno and .cpp.gcdas. So I use gcov filename.cpp.o insead of gcov filename.cpp which will tell me couldn't open filename.gcno errors.
I do some experiments to find the reason of errors. I find when I give gcov one input file like gcov 1.cpp.o, I will get no has arcs from exit block errors, but when I give gcov more than one input files like gcov 1.cpp.o 2.cpp.o , I get the errors of has arcs from exit block. I think a probably reason is about combing multiple gcov files.
I am tring to generate coverage report by gcovr. But got invalid report or 0% coverage report
My project structure look like.
Myproject:
src-----where my all source files stored
testCases---Where my all source files stored
RunTestCases--From where I run my testCases
First I build src by scons from src directory.
Then I build TestCases from testCases directory by scons
Then I run test cases form RunTestCases directory
Last I generated coverage report for source file from src directory
Everthings is ok. My test Cases got pass but coverage report is 0%
I used below command to generated coverage report
gcovr -r . -e "include.*" --html --html-details -o $result_dir/result.html
Please help me..