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Linux c/c++ coverage testing tool

gcov & lcov

  • Reference http://sdet.org/?p=212
  • step 1: add optional in Makefile, and build with make coverage=yes
    ifeq ($(coverage), yes)
    CXXFLAGS += -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
    LINKERCXX += -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
    OPT_FLAGS = -g3
    endif
  • step 2: run test files
  • step 3: generate text result by gcov source_file.cc, see result with vim source_file.cc.gcov
  • step 4: generate html result by lcov -c -d ./ -o app.info and genhtml app.info -o cc_result

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