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| author | Paul Fagerburg <pfagerburg@google.com> | 2021-10-26 13:20:25 -0600 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2021-10-29 05:09:57 +0000 |
| commit | aae5cdf1aaf0916695eb1a345941671ddb21901c (patch) | |
| tree | 532e6f905531ca66dec04f310ad4df083d724a12 | |
| parent | e008c469c322141325d617a8daff6392a04becd6 (diff) | |
Documenation: call out `lcov` as required
Code coverage requires `lcov`, so update the docs to call it out
specifically.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fagerburg <pfagerburg@google.com>
Change-Id: Ie2898faa5188a7174c4e56ba34f1a4f02f939b03
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/58633
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technotes/2021-05-code-coverage.md | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technotes/2021-05-code-coverage.md b/Documentation/technotes/2021-05-code-coverage.md index ec7f4cb5f9..d33fe5d700 100644 --- a/Documentation/technotes/2021-05-code-coverage.md +++ b/Documentation/technotes/2021-05-code-coverage.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Code coverage for the coreboot unit tests allows us to see what lines of code in the coreboot library are covered by unit tests, and allows a test author to see where they need to add test cases for additional coverage. +Code coverage requires `lcov`; install the tool if necessary by +`sudo apt install lcov` or the equivalent for your system. + Enable code coverage in your unit test build by setting the environment variable `COV` to 1; either `export COV=1` in your shell, or add it to your `make` command, e.g. `COV=1 make unit-tests`. |