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chore: Move running of unit tests out of coverage target (#6018)
This change makes the progress of unit tests visible and also gives more flexibility when running them.
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@@ -495,18 +495,18 @@ A coverage report is created when the following steps are completed, in order:
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1. `rippled` binary built with instrumentation data, enabled by the `coverage`
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option mentioned above
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2. completed run of unit tests, which populates coverage capture data
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2. completed one or more run of the unit tests, which populates coverage capture data
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3. completed run of the `gcovr` tool (which internally invokes either `gcov` or `llvm-cov`)
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to assemble both instrumentation data and the coverage capture data into a coverage report
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The above steps are automated into a single target `coverage`. The instrumented
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The last step of the above is automated into a single target `coverage`. The instrumented
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`rippled` binary can also be used for regular development or testing work, at
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the cost of extra disk space utilization and a small performance hit
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(to store coverage capture). In case of a spurious failure of unit tests, it is
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possible to re-run the `coverage` target without rebuilding the `rippled` binary
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(since it is simply a dependency of the coverage report target). It is also possible
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to select only specific tests for the purpose of the coverage report, by setting
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the `coverage_test` variable in `cmake`
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(to store coverage capture data). Since `rippled` binary is simply a dependency of the
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coverage report target, it is possible to re-run the `coverage` target without
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rebuilding the `rippled` binary. Note, running of the unit tests before the `coverage`
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target is left to the developer. Each such run will append to the coverage data
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collected in the build directory.
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The default coverage report format is `html-details`, but the user
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can override it to any of the formats listed in `Builds/CMake/CodeCoverage.cmake`
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@@ -515,11 +515,6 @@ to generate more than one format at a time by setting the `coverage_extra_args`
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variable in `cmake`. The specific command line used to run the `gcovr` tool will be
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displayed if the `CODE_COVERAGE_VERBOSE` variable is set.
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By default, the code coverage tool runs parallel unit tests with `--unittest-jobs`
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set to the number of available CPU cores. This may cause spurious test
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errors on Apple. Developers can override the number of unit test jobs with
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the `coverage_test_parallelism` variable in `cmake`.
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Example use with some cmake variables set:
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```
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