GCOV profilling error : Error writing - gcc

I am trying to get coverage for my source file(main_source.c) tested using unit testing via gtest framework. In my program i am creating a shared object of the source file placed in directory A(--coverage flag was set while creation of .so file, I can see the gcno files in A folder). I have a test file which tests one or two .lo files present in this shared object. My test file is created in folder B which includes shared object created in the previous step for linking purposes. My test is running good, I am able to the get coverage for the test source file. I am getting an error "profiling: A/main_source.c:Error writing gcda files". Can anyone please help. Thank you in advance.

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Xcode Generate Code Coverage Report fails with Error : Error Domain=IDEFoundationErrorDomain Code=14 "Failed to merge raw profiles in directory

I am unable to generate the code coverage data when the the workspace is built with custom XCODE_CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR.
We run the xcodebuild commands to build the workspace with a XCODE_CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR, so that multiple jenkins CI jobs won't overwrite the build output of other jobs which are also running concurrently.
When we run the tests for a build generated this way and try to get the code coverage report, the command fails with the below error.
jenkins$ xcrun xccov view *.xccovreport
Errors:
Error Domain=IDEFoundationErrorDomain Code=14 "Failed to merge raw profiles in directory /Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82 to destination /Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82/Coverage.profdata: No profile data files were written to '/Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82'" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to merge raw profiles in directory /Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82 to destination /Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82/Coverage.profdata: No profile data files were written to '/Users/jenkins/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/XXXXXX-buggtqumttnpjvejnbfhulhqcvno/Build/ProfileData/bff950eda0f75b2dbadb3ce08510474b4667ac82'}
Version/Build:
Version 10.1 (10B61)
Found this thread on Github
The issue was: generating coverage for a Static Library fails, but not for a Dynamic Library.
So check if it works, changing on pbxproj:
- MACH_O_TYPE = staticlib;
+ MACH_O_TYPE = mh_dylib;
And it really generated coverage successfully on my sample framework.
The solution which worked for me was, I have changed the Mach-O-Type from Executable to Static Library.
With the option Dynamic Library also, the coverage report was generating but the build was failing.
Another option was to set the test target as Static Library and Main Target as Executable. Build Succeeded and able to see the coverage for multiple targets.
Xcode Version : 13.4

Cannot generate coverage report using lcov

I'm trying to use lcov to generate coverage reports for my unit test suite, but I cannot even capture a tracefile. The error messages indicate that the source files cannot be found. The code is compiled by a Jenkins job on a build machine and the unit test are executed as a downstream job on a target machine. The source code and gcno files are transfered to the downstream job, which then executes the call to lcov. Here follows all the details, a cup of coffee might be needed.
On the build machine, make is executed in
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/
The source code which I want coverage for is in subdirectories in
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/packages/
The object files and gcno files are generated in an subdirectory o relative to the corresponding cpp file. So for example
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/Myclass.cpp
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.o
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.gcno
The source files and gcno files are copied to the unit test machine keeping the same folder structure and ends up in
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/
Note: There is a difference in the name of the workspace folder, "App-Coverage-Unittest" instead of "App-Coverage" since these two Jenkins jobs cannot have the same name.
So there is now for example
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/Myclass.cpp
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.o
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.gcno
The unit tests are executed in
/opt/app/test/app
Using GCOV_PREFIX_STRIP and GCOV_PREFIX I make the gcda files appear in the same folders as the gcno files, so for example
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.gcno
/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/o/Myclass.gcda
Now I want to generate a coverage report using lcov, but I don't seem to understand how to set the paths correctly. The following examples where executed from /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/ by the Jenkins unittest job.
For example I tried
lcov -d BUILD/app/packages/ -c --no-external -o app.info -b /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/
Reasoning: "-d BUILD/app/packages/" is what I want coverage for, "-b /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/app/" is the root of my project in which I executed make (but on the build machine with a different workspace name...).
I also tried
lcov -d BUILD/app/packages/ --capture --no-external --output-file app.info
Reasoning : "-d BUILD/app/packages/" is what I want coverage for, don't set -b since relative path between each gcno/gcda and corresponding source file is the same as on the build machine, maybe lcov can figure it out.
In both cases get errors like "Cannot open source file /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/app/packages/subdir/Myclass.cpp"
Note: The workspace folder in this path is that of the build machine, not the unittest machine. I thought that this is what the -b option is intended to solve. Clearly this is very suspicious and a valuable clue.
I also get errors like "Cannot open source file ../../../packages/subdir/Myclass.h", which I guess has to do with how I include header files.
I have tried specifying all the paths here. Is it possible to generate the coverage report in the workspace of the unittest job using lcov, like I'm trying to do here? If yes, which are the correct paths to specify for lcov -d and -b flags? If not, what do I need to change to make it work?
Fortunately the answer is yes, it is possible. I got a reply from an lcov dev providing me with the solution, thank you Peter!
He pointed out that all source code paths are hard-coded during the compile step into the .gcno files. However, despite not finding the source files (and producing the warnings) lcov will generate code coverage output even when the source code cannot be found, based solely on the data found in .gcda and .gcno files. However, the genhtml step will fail because it won't be able to find the source code to annotate with code coverage data.
The solution is to use lcov's "geninfo_adjust_src_path" configuration setting. By using this setting, lcov is instructed to change source code paths as found in the .gcno files into the correct source code paths while writing the output .info files. So in my case:
lcov -d BUILD/app/packages/ --capture --no-external --output-file app.info
--rc geninfo_adjust_src_path="/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage/BUILD/
=> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/App-Coverage-Unittest/BUILD/"
The warnings "Cannot open source file" will still be there when invoking lcov, but the resulting .info file will contain the correct paths and can therefore be converted to HTML on the test machine using genhtml.

MsTest unable to copy test data files to build server

I am trying to implement automated unit testing with each build using TFS.
Problem statement :
I have created few xml files which stores test data and set to copy always. When run locally files are picked up from bin folder. When I schedule a build, build process looks for files in out folder under TestResults on Build Server. Out folder contains ddls but not the xml files. Hence unable to find files and results into build failure partially.
You can specify additional files to deploy in your test settings file:
More details here - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182475.aspx
You could also use the DeploymentItem Attribute.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.deploymentitemattribute.aspx

Automatically generate Code Coverage during nightly build

I have some problems getting the code coverage .coverage file generated in nightly build.
What I have: I've configured my build to use a .runsettings file and Type of run settings : CodeCoverageEnabled
The build is correctly running all the required unit tests and measuring the code coverage, using only a selected number of assemblies (specified in the .runsettings file).
In the build report, within VS2013, I can manually export the code coverage file (a .coverage file).
What I need:
I would need to configure the build to automatically generate that .coverage file in a target folder.
How do I do that?
The .coverage file is present as a part of the test results. You can use the .runsettings to set a outputpath for the test results
<ResultsDirectory>c:\\TestResults</ResultsDirectory>
The .coverage file will be present in a subfolder within the results directory.
If you want to push it to another location you can do that via a post-build script in your nightly's build process template.

OCMock test fails to build: Foundation/Foundation.h : No such file or directory

I am a Xcode beginner, and am facing some problems in compiling an OCMock test. I have added the OCMock.framework in "Groups & Files", and then added a very basic OCMock test from the Unit testing target, basically for Canary testing.
When I compile the OCMockTests.m file, the system returns around 38 errors pointing out all the imported headers that is in OCMock.Framework files to be non-existent, and in the top comes "Foundation/Foundation.h : No such file or directory". But when I compile the OCMock.Framework, then everything succeeds. I tried replacing Foundation.h with NSObject.h, but the system is not even able to find that.
I reckon it is some linker error....the system is somehow probably not able to get the location of Sentest.Framework. BTW, I have updated the Executable info - environment variable - DYLD_FALLBACK_FRAMEWORK_PATH with the correct (?) Sentest framework path (the argument is "-Sentest All"), that is of the IphoneOS folder.
Need your advices...thanks a bunch.
~ Sayan
See Colin Barrett's "OCMock and the iPhone" tutorial.

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