[webkit-dev] WebKit coverage (a little welcome present)

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On May 4, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Holger Freyther wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I adjusted, updated and improved my gcov scripts and let it run on  
> the WebKit repository. Leopard will probably have something more  
> visually appealing but for everyone not at Apple this http:// 
> www.openembedded.org/~zecke/coverage/webkit/mac/index.html might  
> look interesting.
>
>
> The commands that were run:
>
> WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit  
> GCC_GENERATE_TEST_COVERAGE_FILES=YES  
> GCC_INSTRUMENT_PROGRAM_FLOW_ARCS=YES EXTRA_LINK=" -ftest-coverage - 
> fprofile-arcs" OTHER_CFLAGS=" -MD " OTHER_LDFLAGS=" -ftest-coverage  
> -fprofile-arcs -framework AppKit"
> WebKitTools/Scripts/run-webkit-tests
> WebKitTools/Scripts/run-javascriptcore-tests  
> GCC_GENERATE_TEST_COVERAGE_FILES=YES  
> GCC_INSTRUMENT_PROGRAM_FLOW_ARCS=YES EXTRA_LINK=" -ftest-coverage - 
> fprofile-arcs" OTHER_CFLAGS=" -MD " OTHER_LDFLAGS=" -ftest-coverage  
> -fprofile-arcs -framework AppKit"
>
> Open issues:
> Some files get compiled but are not executed so no .gcda,.gcna get  
> generated. I could guess the line numbers and add them to the  
> statistic. I could ignore these files, or just list them.
>
>
> So is that of interest for anyone?

Looks awesome to me. I think we should get your scripts in the  
repository and consider setting up a buildbot to eventually run the  
tests in a gcov-enabled build. Can you submit some patches?

Regards,
Maciej