Re: Coverage report

[rjt]

I assume you mean Devel::Cover. If you haven't already, that documentation is really good, and covers some of your questions.

If you're getting unwanted files in your output, you can use -ignore or +ignore with a regexp. But you normally shouldn't be seeing those included modules. What does your directory structure look like, and how exactly are you invoking cover?

I use Devel::Cover in my distributions. In that case, I simply run cover -test in the root of my distribution, which runs make test and reports the coverage, and won't report coverage of other external modules. Here's what the output looks like for me:

pts/6 ryan@pi:~/src/Text-Trim $> cover -test
Deleting database /home/ryan/src/Text-Trim/cover_db
cover: running make test "OPTIMIZE=-O0 -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
+ "OTHERLDFLAGS=-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::H
+arness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/l
+ib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00..load.t ..... 1/? # Testing Text::Trim 1.03, Perl 5.026001, /usr/
+bin/perl
t/00..load.t ..... ok   
t/01..trim.t ..... ok     
t/02..ltrim.t .... ok     
t/03..rtrim.t .... ok     
t/04..unicode.t .. ok   
t/05..undef.t .... ok     
t/99..pod.t ...... ok   
All tests successful.
Files=7, Tests=64,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  1.91 cusr
+  0.09 csys =  2.02 CPU)
Result: PASS
Reading database from /home/ryan/src/Text-Trim/cover_db


--------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
File                    stmt   bran   cond    sub    pod   time  total
--------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
blib/lib/Text/Trim.pm  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
Total                  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
--------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------

HTML output written to /home/ryan/src/Text-Trim/cover_db/coverage.html
done.

I am not exactly sure what you mean by "merging", but if you can get all of your source code into the same distribution, you can have one report cover the whole thing. If that is not desirable or feasible, then I'm not sure what to suggest, aside from a simple concatenation or pagination of the results.

[ovedpo15]

Thank you for your reply. I'll try the ignore flag.
About the merge part, I'll try to explain myself better.
I have a tool which runs multi unitest.
Each one of them creats a coverage report.
I want somehow to "merge" those reports into one main report.
I feel like it is a bit novice question, but I'm not sure that I fully understand the coverge idea.
How can I "merge those reports into one main report so It will look like I ran one unitest and got the report?

[jcb]

Devel::Cover accumulates all of its results in one database. I use PERL5OPT=-MDevel::Cover prove -l for development tests on a pure-Perl distribution I am writing, followed by simply cover to get the unified report.