Merge branch 'siri/cover-tests'

* siri/cover-tests: (21 commits)
  [common_test] Extend timer for flushing error logger
  [cover] Allow reconnection if node has been disconnected or down
  [cover] Don't kill remote nodes when connection to main node is lost
  [test_server] Add option {start_cover,false} to test_server:start_node
  Use code:lib_dir instead of code:which to get application directory
  [common_test] Add test for OTP-9956
  Include all kernel modules in code coverage analysis
  [common_test] Add test suite for code coverage support
  [common_test, test_server] Don't flush cover if cover is not running
  [common_test] Add option cover_stop
  [test_server] Allow cross cover analysis when testing through common_test
  [test_server] Start cover in test_server:wait_for_node
  [test_server] Multiply timers with timetrap_scale_factor when starting nodes
  Include all stdlib modules in code coverage analysis
  [test_server] Include all test_server modules in code coverage analysis
  Skip epp_SUITE:otp_8911 if cover is running
  [common_test] Start cover on slave nodes if running cover tests
  [common_test] Don't stop cover before stopping slave node
  [test_server] Don't stop cover after test is finished
  [cover] Add support for test_server
  ...

OTP-10427

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
index 683acc025d..a2444ec947 100644
--- a/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
+++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/cover.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <header>
     <copyright>
       <year>2001</year>
-      <year>2011</year>
+      <year>2012</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@
       remove nodes. The same Cover compiled code will be loaded on each
       node, and analysis will collect and sum up coverage data results
       from all nodes.</p>
+    <p>To only collect data from remote nodes without stopping
+      <c>cover</c> on those nodes, use <c>cover:flush/1</c></p>
+    <p>If the connection to a remote node goes down, the main node
+      will mark it as lost. If the node comes back it will be added
+      again. If the remote node was alive during the disconnected
+      periode, cover data from before and during this periode will be
+      included in the analysis.</p>
   </description>
   <funcs>
     <func>
@@ -477,6 +484,17 @@
           remote nodes is fetched and stored on the main node.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
+    <func>
+      <name>flush(Nodes) -> ok | {error,not_main_node}</name>
+      <fsummary>Collect cover data from remote nodes.</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>Nodes = [atom()]</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Fetch data from the Cover database on the remote nodes and
+        stored on the main node.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
   </funcs>
 
   <section>