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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: GDB test coverage
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH=s-PPB7pb1ZFj2GZXeqMsW+H74UQduqeDkSZsS2i+YLd48iA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,
We had the doc on wiki about doing coverage tests to GDB,
https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/TestingGDB#Coverage_Testing
and I give it a try last week.  Get some interesting results to share
now,

http://people.linaro.org/~yao.qi/gdb/coverage/20161102/

In general, the coverage is better than I expected :-).  Some initial
analysis to the coverage data,

 - the coverage in linux-record.c is low, because we don't test many
   syscalls in gdb.reverse,
 - the coverage in *-lang.c is low.  Looks we are still lack of language
   related tests.
 - we don't test all the start options in gdb, see the coverage in
   main.c:captured_main_1
 - we don't test "set cp-abi", "set extension-language", "delete checkpoint"
   "detach checkpopint",
 - here is a list of functions are never used,
   main.c:get_gdb_program_name,
   corefile.c:read_stack,
   valarith.c:value_in,
 - linux_gdb_signal_from_target and linux_gdb_signal_to_target are not
   well covered,

I am sure we can still get more from these coverage results.  How do we
make full use of coverage tests?  What I can think of are
 - we can find some never-used functions, and remove some of them,
 - add more test cases to address some low-coverage areas,

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-08 17:38 UTC|newest]

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2016-11-08 17:38 Yao Qi [this message]
2016-11-08 18:34 ` Matt Rice

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