[RFC PATCH 0/1] Add support for code-coverage analysis

[Aaron Conole]

Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer at siemens.com> writes:

> This patch has been developed as part of the DPDK Userspace Summit Hackathon.
> It provides a PoC for code-coverage analysis for the DPDK project.
>
> To generate the report, a developer simply follows the official
> meson coverage workflow, described in [1].
> In doing so, both an HTML report, as well as an XML version is generated
> for further processing.
>
> In short, the following steps are required:
>
> - install gcovr
> - meson -Db_coverage=true build-cov
> - meson compile -C build-cov
> - meson test -C build-cov --suite fast-tests
> - ninja coverage -C build-cov
>
> [1] https://mesonbuild.com/howtox.html#producing-a-coverage-report

+1 for this effort, I also think that would be a great addition so show
our current coverage via a service or something like coveralls.io and
possibly the dashboard.  I don't know if coveralls would support the
series branches we create, so I will spend a bit of time looking into
it.

BTW, can you also include information on the current coverage % of code
base?  Last I recall, some of the libraries were quite low (bpf and
bbdev stick in my mind as having very low coverage).

> Best regards,
> Felix Moessbauer
> Siemens AG
>
> Felix Moessbauer (1):
>   Add basic support for code coverage analysis
>
>  gcovr.cfg | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 gcovr.cfg