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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2018-06-20 12:34:45 +0100
committerAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2018-07-05 15:59:41 +0100
commit990e6a2754fc16501470b661c4af94ec036f1190 (patch)
treecb3a68604a18721982ed5de7512cc4fa63df5327 /docs/devel
parent0708e6476fad27c4d98c5c302a7d7ca475a41369 (diff)
build-system: add clean-coverage target
This can be used to remove any stale coverage data before any particular test run. This is useful for analysing individual tests. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>---
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diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
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@@ -161,9 +161,14 @@ GCC gcov support
``gcov`` is a GCC tool to analyze the testing coverage by
instrumenting the tested code. To use it, configure QEMU with
``--enable-gcov`` option and build. Then run ``make check`` as usual.
-Reports can be obtained by running ``gcov`` command on the output
-files under ``$build_dir/tests/``, please read the ``gcov``
-documentation for more information.
+
+If you want to gather coverage information on a single test the ``make
+clean-coverage`` target can be used to delete any existing coverage
+information before running a single test.
+
+Reports can be obtained by running ``gcov`` command
+on the output files under ``$build_dir/tests/``, please read the
+``gcov`` documentation for more information.
QEMU iotests
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