rtems-tools: coverage covoar GSoC merge

[Vijay Kumar Banerjee]

On 3 May 2018 at 22:58, Cillian O'Donnell <cpodonnell8 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 3 May 2018, 16:23 Vijay Kumar Banerjee, <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to ask some things about the project to get a clear understanding
>> of the objectives/milestones and current status of the project. I also seek
>> advice on my Tasks/obectives.
>>
>> 1. The covoar has been updated to read symbols from the library and the
>> next milestone is to remove covoar's dependancy on the external tools,
>> which Chris is working on . ( Is that correct? )
>>
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> Looks like it won't be necessary for gsoc, so we won't have to wait for
> their removal. Chris might still have some other changes to make though and
> then we can pull master and branch off from there.
>
Understood.

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>> 2. after it is done , the next step,I think, would be to update the
>> coverage.py and test.py with the changes in covoar.
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> Yeah getting all the rtems tester code up to a standard that Chris will be
> happy to merge it will be the next step.
>
So basically we wait for Chris to make the changes to covoar, needed for us
to start working on coverage code to make it running and up to the
standards.

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>> While the Covoar is being updated, shall I be looking into the
>> documentations and read the code to gain better understanding? Do you
>> suggest me to work on some specific task ?
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> Understanding how covoar is working will be useful. Running covoar with -v
> option and reading down through covoar.cc should help you get an overview
> of what's going on. You don't need to understand every detail, just get a
> general sense of it.
>
> okay, I'll follow this.

> Looks like gcov is going to feature heavily in your project. So reading up
> on that and understanding what state the gcov support in covoar is like
> should be useful.
>
> Understood. I'll read about it.
Thanks for the suggestions.

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>> Please suggest resources to gain better understanding of how coverage
>> analysis works/supposed to work with the rtems tester. (I can even try
>> updating the documentations with some help, this will also help me get
>> better understanding ).
>>
>> Thank you.
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