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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-06-11 15:07:43 +0200
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2014-06-11 15:07:43 +0200
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Merge branch 'siri/ct-and-cover/OTP-11971' into maint
* siri/ct-and-cover/OTP-11971: Improve cover analysis via common_test Change internal format of CoverInfo in test_server [ct] Add test of cover support when merge_tests=false
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diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
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--- a/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
+++ b/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2006</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2006</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -81,10 +81,7 @@
specify that previously exported data should be imported and
included in the analysis for a test (you can specify multiple
import files). This way it is possible to analyse total code coverage
- without necessarily running all tests at once. Note that even if
- you run separate tests in one test run, code coverage data will
- not be passed on from one test to another unless you specify an
- export file for Common Test to use for this purpose.</p>
+ without necessarily running all tests at once.</p>
<p>To activate the code coverage support, you simply specify the
name of the cover specification file as you start Common Test.
@@ -266,10 +263,20 @@ ct_cover:cross_cover_analyse(Level, [{s1,S1LogDir},{s2,S2LogDir}]).</code>
<section>
<title>Logging</title>
- <p>To view the result of a code coverage test, follow the
- "Coverage log" link on the test suite results page. This
- takes you to the code coverage overview page. If you have
- successfully performed a detailed coverage analysis, you
+ <p>To view the result of a code coverage test, click the button
+ labled "COVER LOG" in the top level index page for the test run.</p>
+
+ <p>Prior to Erlang/OTP 17.1, if your test run consisted of
+ multiple tests, cover would be started and stopped for each test
+ within the test run. Separate logs would be available via the
+ "Coverage log" link on the test suite result pages. These links
+ are still available, but now they all point to the same page as
+ the button on the top level index page. The log contains the
+ accumulated results for the complete test run. See the release
+ notes for more information about this change.</p>
+
+ <p>The buttonc takes you to the code coverage overview page. If you
+ have successfully performed a detailed coverage analysis, you
find links to each individual module coverage page here.</p>
<p>If cross cover analysis has been performed, and there are