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diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/cover_chapter.xml index b7162cb542..b2e64bfff0 100644 --- 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>2011</year> + <year>2006</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ <p><c>$ ct_run -dir $TESTOBJS/db -cover $TESTOBJS/db/config/db.coverspec</c></p> <p>You may also pass the cover specification file name in a - call to <c>ct:run_test/1</c>, by adding a <c>{cover,CoverSpec}</c> + call to <c><seealso marker="ct#run_test-1">ct:run_test/1</seealso></c>, by adding a <c>{cover,CoverSpec}</c> tuple to the <c>Opts</c> argument. Also, you can of course enable code coverage in your test specifications (read more in the chapter about @@ -109,6 +109,33 @@ </section> <section> + <marker id="cover_stop"></marker> + <title>Stopping the cover tool when tests are completed</title> + <p>By default the Cover tool is automatically stopped when the + tests are completed. This causes the original (non cover + compiled) modules to be loaded back in to the test node. If a + process at this point is still running old code of any of the + modules that are cover compiled, meaning that it has not done + any fully qualified function call after the cover compilation, + the process will now be killed. To avoid this it is possible to + set the value of the <c>cover_stop</c> option to + <c>false</c>. This means that the modules will stay cover + compiled, and it is therefore only recommended if the erlang + node(s) under test is terminated after the test is completed + or if cover can be manually stopped.</p> + + <p>The option can be set by using the <c>-cover_stop</c> flag with + <c>ct_run</c>, by adding <c>{cover_stop,true|false}</c> to the + Opts argument to <c><seealso + marker="ct#run_test-1">ct:run_test/1</seealso></c>, or by adding + a <c>cover_stop</c> term in your test specification (see chapter + about <seealso + marker="run_test_chapter#test_specifications">test + specifications</seealso>).</p> + + </section> + + <section> <title>The cover specification file</title> <p>These are the terms allowed in a cover specification file:</p> |