[Boost-testing] Coverage report tool

From: Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-23 13:37:55

Good <time-of-day>!

I've developed a code coverage analysis utility as a part of my 
"leisure-time" project. I hope it can be useful to Boosters :)

Here is an example output for Boost.Date_Time tz_database test:
http://elewise.com/~cyberax/cov_test/index_tz_database.html

You can grab sources of my utility here: 
http://elewise.com/~cyberax/coverage.zip

My coverage analysis tool consists of three parts: scanner tool, report 
formatter.

Scanner tool is used to gather coverage info from test run. Currently it 
only supports GNU GCOV output, but I'm working on adding Rational 
PureCoverage support. Scanner tool saves coverage data in a "coverage 
repository" as a graph of serialized objects (Boost.Serialization 
library is used). Here is a coverage repository for Boost.Date_time: 
http://elewise.com/~cyberax/report.xml

Report formatter uses this coverage repository to create a nice HTML 
reports with highlighted uncovered lines.

Additionally, all coverage repository utilities are separated into a 
nice library. So one can easily create all sorts of reporting utilities 
(for example, to run daily coverage analysis and create emails to 
authors whose code has too low test coverage :) )

Currently, I'm trying to integrate this with BBv2 and I need some help 
on how to hook into BJam.v2 test suits. I need to run something like
this:
==============
scanner-tool.exe --gcov-name i686-mingw32-gcov --source-dir 
C:\tools\boost\libs\date_time\test  --test-name tz_database --scan-dir 
C:\tools\boost\bin.v2\libs\date_time\test\testtz_database.test
==============
after each test. How can I do this?

-- 
With respect,
             Alex Besogonov (cyberax_at_[hidden])