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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 2010, 2013  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.


@node Code Coverage
@section Code Coverage Reports

@cindex code coverage
@cindex coverage
When writing a test suite for a program or library, it is desirable to know what
part of the code is @dfn{covered} by the test suite.  The @code{(system vm
coverage)} module provides tools to gather code coverage data and to present
them, as detailed below.

@deffn {Scheme Procedure} with-code-coverage thunk
Run @var{thunk}, a zero-argument procedure, while instrumenting Guile's
virtual machine to collect code coverage data.  Return code coverage
data and the values returned by @var{thunk}.
@end deffn

@deffn {Scheme Procedure} coverage-data? obj
Return @code{#t} if @var{obj} is a @dfn{coverage data} object as returned by
@code{with-code-coverage}.
@end deffn

@deffn {Scheme Procedure} coverage-data->lcov data port #:key modules
Traverse code coverage information @var{data}, as obtained with
@code{with-code-coverage}, and write coverage information to port in the
@code{.info} format used by @url{http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php,
LCOV}.  The report will include all of @var{modules} (or, by default, all the
currently loaded modules) even if their code was not executed.

The generated data can be fed to LCOV's @command{genhtml} command to produce an
HTML report, which aids coverage data visualization.
@end deffn

Here's an example use:

@example
(use-modules (system vm coverage)
             (system vm vm))

(call-with-values (lambda ()
                    (with-code-coverage
                      (lambda ()
                        (do-something-tricky))))
  (lambda (data result)
    (let ((port (open-output-file "lcov.info")))
      (coverage-data->lcov data port)
      (close file))))
@end example

In addition, the module provides low-level procedures that would make it
possible to write other user interfaces to the coverage data.

@deffn {Scheme Procedures} instrumented-source-files data
Return the list of ``instrumented'' source files, i.e., source files whose
code was loaded at the time @var{data} was collected.
@end deffn

@deffn {Scheme Procedures} line-execution-counts data file
Return a list of line number/execution count pairs for @var{file}, or
@code{#f} if @var{file} is not among the files covered by @var{data}.  This
includes lines with zero count.
@end deffn

@deffn {Scheme Procedures} instrumented/executed-lines data file
Return the number of instrumented and the number of executed source lines
in @var{file} according to @var{data}.
@end deffn

@deffn {Scheme Procedures} procedure-execution-count data proc
Return the number of times @var{proc}'s code was executed, according to
@var{data}, or @code{#f} if @var{proc} was not executed.  When @var{proc}
is a closure, the number of times its code was executed is returned, not
the number of times this code associated with this particular closure was
executed.
@end deffn