Source code, additional information, screenshots… available at
eigenclass.org
Release information:
eigenclass.org
Sample fully cross-referenced report at
eigenclass.org
This release includes two RubyGems packages: a binary one for Win32 and
a
platform-independent one for all those with a compiler, (or a lot of
patience,
if willing to run rcov in pure-Ruby mode), so
gem install rcov
should work once the packages have propagated to the mirror network.
Overview
rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing
overall
test coverage of target code. It features:
- fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
- multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, “intentional
testing”,
dependency analysis… - detection of uncovered code introduced since the last run
(“differential
code coverage”) - fairly accurate coverage information through code linkage inference
using
simple heuristics - cross-referenced XHTML and several kinds of text reports
- support for easy automation with Rake and Rant
- colorblind-friendliness
What’s new in 0.8.0
Features
- –annotate mode, which dumps annotated source code which can be used
to
follow the control flow (very useful when reading third-party code) - –gcc option to display uncovered lines in GCC error format
- superior Emacs support: running rcov, jumping to uncovered code,
navigate
through cross-referenced annotated code - –[no-]validator-links
Bugfixes
- differential code coverage reports work with filenames containing
special
characters - fixed recent segfaults happening with rspec
- more care name mangling
Minor enhancements
- relevant summary values are identified using separate CSS classes
(microformat-style)
Special thanks go to
rubikitch
- implemented --annotate mode
- implemented --gcc option
- superior emacs support
- testing, refactoring…
- many other things, see darcs changes
Zed A. Shaw
- reported and fixed segfault triggered by rspec
Jan S.
- reported typo in rcovtask.rb’s RDoc
Thomas L.
- fixed the bug which broke differential reports for filenames with
special characters
How do I use it?
In the common scenario, your tests are under test/ and the target code
(whose coverage you want) is in lib/. In that case, all you have to do
is
use rcov to run the tests (instead of testrb), and a number of XHTML
files
with the code coverage information will be generated, e.g.
rcov -Ilib test/*.rb
will execute all the .rb files under test/ and generate the code
coverage
report for the target code (i.e. for the files in lib/) under coverage/.
The
target code needs not be under lib/; rcov will detect is as long as it
is
require()d by the tests. rcov is smart enough to ignore “uninteresting”
files: the tests themselves, files installed in Ruby’s standard
locations,
etc. See rcov --help for the list of regexps rcov matches filenames
against.
rcov can also be used from Rake; see README.rake or the RDoc
documentation
for more information.
rcov can output information in several formats, and perform different
kinds
of analyses in addition to plain code coverage. See rcov --help for a
description of the available options.
Sample output
See eigenclass.org (once again) for screenshots.
The text report (also used by default in RcovTasks) resembles
±----------------------------------------------------±------±------±-------+
| File | Lines | LOC | COV |
±----------------------------------------------------±------±------±-------+
|lib/rcov.rb | 572 | 358 | 91.3% |
±----------------------------------------------------±------±------±-------+
|Total | 572 | 358 | 91.3% |
±----------------------------------------------------±------±------±-------+
91.3% 1 file(s) 572 Lines 358 LOC
The (undecorated) textual output with execution count information looks
like this:
$ rcov --no-html --text-counts b.rb
./b.rb
|
2
a, b, c = (1…3).to_a |
2
10.times do |
1
a += 1 |
10
20.times do |i| |
10
b += i |
200
b.times do |
200
c += (j = (b-a).abs) > 0 ? j : 0 |
738800
end |
0
end |
0
end |
0
rcov can detect when you’ve added code that was not covered by your unit
tests:
$ rcov --text-coverage-diff --no-color test/*.rb
Started
.......................................
Finished in 1.163085 seconds.
39 tests, 415 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors
================================================================================
!!!!! Uncovered code introduced in lib/rcov.rb
### lib/rcov.rb:207
def precompute_coverage(comments_run_by_default = true)
changed = false
lastidx = lines.size - 1
if (!is_code?(lastidx) || /^END$/ =~ @lines[-1]) &&
!@coverage[lastidx]
!! # mark the last block of comments
!! @coverage[lastidx] ||= :inferred
!! (lastidx-1).downto(0) do |i|
!! break if is_code?(i)
!! @coverage[i] ||= :inferred
!! end
!! end
(0…lines.size).each do |i|
next if @coverage[i]
line = @lines[i]
License
rcov is released under the terms of Ruby’s license.
rcov includes xx 0.1.0, which is subject to the following conditions:
ePark Labs Public License version 1
Copyright (c) 2005, ePark Labs, Inc. and contributors
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer. - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution. - Neither the name of ePark Labs nor the names of its contributors
may be
used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without
specific prior written permission.
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IMPLIED
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