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authorDaniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>2017-04-08 13:50:18 +0100
committerDaniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org>2017-04-08 13:50:18 +0100
commit47e6127d9d9d77d0a391f295fa076b5e1cbad273 (patch)
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parentcba5da5382d73b7ca6b46157889b14e5f6e2ee16 (diff)
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updates TESTING for COVER_GTT=yesdsilvers/gtt-cover-not-default
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@@ -314,3 +314,10 @@ should be excluded is not, then adjust the `.luacov` file which is the
configuration for the coverage tool. This is also loaded by the internal
in-tree-only module `lib/gitano/coverage.lua` which is generated at build time
from `lib/gitano/coverage.lua.in`.
+
+If you are trying to get coverage for the `gitano-test-tool` binary in the
+`testing` directory then you will need to **also** pass `COVER_GTT=yes` when
+running the test suite. This distinction is present since around two thirds of
+all invocations of coverable code in the test suite uses the test tool to
+perform some related task, meaning that covering it causes a significant
+slowdown in testing, and increases the cost of generating the coverage report.