Launching a coverage-enabled project

After enabling code coverage for your project and building it with coverage instrumentation, you must create a launch configuration that contains the Code Coverage tool. Then you can run the program defined by the project and collect coverage data.

1. In the Project Explorer view, right-click your project and select Run As > Run Configurations.
   The Run Configurations dialog appears.
2. Create a C/C++ QNX Qconn (IP) launch configuration and define the basic settings (e.g., name, build configuration) but don't click OK yet.
   For information about these settings, see Creating a launch configuration.
3. In the launch configuration, select the Tools tab, then click Add/Delete Tool.
4. In the Tools selection dialog, check the Code Coverage box, then click OK to return to the launch configuration.
5. Select the Code Coverage tab, and fill in any required fields.
   

   Code Coverage data format

   This field is permanently set by the IDE to gcc 4.7 or later, meaning it can collect code coverage metrics only from programs compiled with gcc 4.7 or later.

   Code Coverage data scan interval (sec)

   How often the Code Coverage tool polls for data, in seconds. A low setting can cause continuous network traffic. The default setting of 5 seconds should be sufficient.

   Directory (on target) for temporary coverage data

   Target location for writing the code coverage data files. By default, this field names the directory that the executable binary is uploaded to (e.g., /tmp). You can click Browse to open a file selector and manually select a target filesystem directory.

   Comments for this Code Coverage session

   Your own notes about the session. The comments appear at the top of generated reports.

   Collect data for

   By default, the new session includes all coverage data from only the project being launched. To include data from referenced projects or only certain files, disable the option All Sources in this application compiled with code coverage, then click Select to open a dialog that lets you select the projects or files for which you want to see data:
   
   

   For projects, they must be built with code coverage to collect any data.

   Advanced

   Click Advanced to define a signal to enable the dynamic collection of code coverage data. To perform data collection, the IDE will send this signal to the program.
   
   

   You also have the option to suspend the program threads while flushing the data. When you're finished configuring the data collection parameters, click OK to return to the launch configuration.

6. Check Switch to this tool's perspective on launch if you want to automatically switch to the QNX Code Coverage perspective when you launch the project.
7. Click Apply to save the tool settings.
8. Click Run.