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Publish Code Coverage in Jenkins

Generate and publish a code coverage report in Jenkins CI using 3 simple additional steps: enable the rktracer tool and rebuild, test the instrumented application and save the coverage data, then publish the code coverage reports.

You will see how to generate and publish a code coverage report in Jenkins CI using 3 simple additional steps:

  1. Enable the RKTracer tool and rebuild the application.
  2. Test the instrumented application and save the coverage data.
  3. Publish the code coverage reports.

Install the RKTracer code coverage tool plugin in Jenkins

  1. Login into Jenkins.
  2. On the right-hand side, the column selects Manage Jenkins and then manage plugins.
  3. Go to the advanced tab and scroll down to the Upload plugin section.
  4. Now browse and navigate to the plugin section in the RKTracer installation folder C:\rktracer\share\rktracer-plugins and select the rktracer.hpi file to upload.
  5. After uploading, it takes some time to install and restart the Jenkins.
Plugin installed

You have successfully configured the RKTracer code coverage tool plugin in Jenkins.

Enable the RKTracer tool

You need to enable the RKTracer code coverage tool in the project build job.

Build and test the application

You can either trigger and run unit tests or integration tests or functional tests on the RKTracer code coverage tool instrumented application in the Jenkins job.

Disable the RKTracer tool

After building and testing the instrumented application, disable the RKTracer tool in the Jenkins job.

Generate HTML and XML reports

The XML report rktracer.xml is to publish reports in Jenkins. The XML report rktracer-sonarqube.xml is to publish generic reports to SonarQube.

generate xml + html reports
c:\rktracer\bin\rkresults.exe -xml
  • -xml will generate xml coverage reports along with HTML reports.

Publish Code Coverage reports in Jenkins

You need to add Publish RKTracer Coverage Reports and don't change the default setting.

After building and testing the application, hit the refresh button on the browser. And now you will see the code coverage report. Click on that code coverage, and you will see the code coverage data.

Enable coverage for selected files

Generate coverage reports for the selected folders

Given folders such as:

example folders
C:\project\sound\drivers\base\power\
C:\project\sound\drivers\base\power\firmware_loader\
C:\project\sound\drivers\core\
C:\project\sound\security\keys\
C:\project\sound\security\lockdown\

Suppose you need code coverage for source files from three different folders, i.e., core, keys, power, and ignore coverage for folders firmware_loader and lockdown. Edit rktracer.config in the RKTracer installation folder and go to the end of the file add the following information.

rktracer.config
ignore *.cpp
instrument */power/* */core/* */keys/*
never */firmware_loader/* */lockdown/*
  • ignore *.cpp = Ignores all Cpp source files from instrumentation.
  • instrument = Instrument source files from given folders.
  • never = ignore selected folder.

Generate coverage reports only for selected functions from three different files

For functions such as:

example functions
fun_X() in source-file-X
fun_Y() in source-file-Y
fun_Z() in source-file-Z

Suppose you need code coverage for selected functions from three different files. Edit rktracer.config in the RKTracer installation folder and go to the end of the file and set the following variables as shown below.

rktracer.config
ignore *.cpp
instrument *source-file-X.cpp *source-file-Y.cpp *source-file-Z.cpp
function-ignore *
function-instrument fun_X() fun_Y() fun_Z()
  • ignore *.cpp = Ignore all Cpp programming source files.
  • instrument *file-X.cpp *file-Y.cpp *file-Z.cpp = Instrument only these three source files.
  • function-ignore * = Then ignore all functions in the above three files.
  • function-instrument fun_X() fun_Y() fun_Z() = But instrument or don't ignore these three functions from these three files.

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