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diff --git a/doc/HACKING/WritingTests.md b/doc/HACKING/WritingTests.md index 4dae41e922..cc393494ec 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/WritingTests.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/WritingTests.md @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ coverage percentage. For a summary of the test coverage for each _function_, run `./scripts/test/cov-display -f ${TMPDIR}/*`. +For more details on using gcov, including the helper scripts in +scripts/test, see HelpfulTools.md. + ### Comparing test coverage Sometimes it's useful to compare test coverage for a branch you're writing to @@ -117,7 +120,8 @@ with LCOV_EXCL_START... LCOV_EXCL_STOP. Note that older versions of lcov don't understand these lines. You can post-process .gcov files to make these lines 'unreached' by -running ./scripts/test/cov-exclude on them. +running ./scripts/test/cov-exclude on them. It marks excluded +unreached lines with 'x', and excluded reached lines with '!!!'. Note: you should never do this unless the line is meant to 100% unreachable by actual code. |