Generating a code coverage report

The IDE lets you generate a code coverage report so you can visualize the data for a session.

To generate a report:

Right-click the session whose data you want to view, then select Generate Report.

The session can still be in progress—in this case, the IDE just outputs the results gathered so far.

The IDE generates a temporary XML file containing the coverage data from this session and displays the file in the preferred web browser. The data is shown in a color-coded table:

You can change the web browser used for displaying reports by accessing the web browser preferences through Window > Preferences > General > Web Browser, selecting Use external web browser, then clicking the browser you want to use in the list of browsers.

You can also choose to view the reports within the IDE, by selecting Use internal web browser in the same preferences dialog. With this selection, the report is shown in a special view, Coverage Report. The advantage to this setup is that you can click the view's refresh icon () to update the report, which is handy for active sessions.