Re: New propossed GnomeGoal: Add code coverage support

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Stefan Kost wrote:
> Am 04.01.2010 19:53, schrieb Javier Jardón:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> The objective of the GnomeGoal is to add code coverage of your code
>> with GCOV [1]
>>     
>
> Good goal! I wonder how many of the gnome projects even have a test suite, which
> is the prerequisite :)
>
> GCov has the drawback that one needs to rebuild the package with coverage flags
> enabled. Just a few days ago I found
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bcov/
> which does not needs that. I also produces (almost) same results reports like
> lcov. I has some missing feature and drawback though. I plan to have a look at
> some of the shortcommings.
>   
bcov is now in git on sf.net and my patches have been merged. You can
use bcov as a drop in replacement for gcov+lcov. It has little
dependencies - give it a try!

Stefan