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This feature is useful to see what coverage a test does of its called objects for a particular test execution.

Set up

To use it, the first thing to do is enable Code Coverage for your environment.

Once it's enabled, the test objects may need to be rebuilt. To achieve that, you can perform a "Rebuild All Tests" operation under the "Test" menu.

Test Coverage information

Finally, when a test execution is finished, the coverage is displayed in the Tests Results window.

The coverage percentage displayed is calculated as follows:

Given a test, coverage information about all its called objects (Procedures and Data Providers) is summarized and calculated taking into account only direct relative objects (the ones called directly by the test).

When a test doesn't call any other testable object, a hyphen is shown (e.g. test AssertXMLs in the previous image).

Example 1

There is a test X that calls to procedure A and data provider B.

If during the execution of test X, 8 of 10 lines of object A and 2 of 10 lines of object B were executed, the coverage for that test for that execution will be 50% ( ((8 + 2) /(10 + 10)) * 100); regardless of any other object that could be called by objects A or B.

Note: In case you want to view even more details about coverage, you can always open Code Coverage window and load the file from the file system. Note that the path of the generated code coverage file by GXtest is logged in the GeneXus IDE log.

Example 2

There are 2 tests (test1 and test2) that call a procedure with an if / else sentence. The test1 covers 50% of the procedure and test2 covers the other 50%.

If both tests are executed together the total coverage for the procedure will be 100%. This is, coverage for each unit test will be displayed as 100%. On the other hand, if you run a single test of them, the displayed coverage will be displayed as 50%.

Availability

This feature is available since GeneXus 16 upgrade 8.


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