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Cover++ Documentation

Getting started

Cover++ is a code coverage tool for C/C++ applications on Windows.

Installation

Section titled “Installation”

Grab the latest release from GitHub. You can use the installer or the portable archive.

For details, head over to the installation guide.

Run an app under coverage

Section titled “Run an app under coverage”

To run my-app.exe while collecting coverage, use:

Terminal window
cover++ run my-app.exe

If you need to pass arguments to your app, you can append them to the invocation above.

This command:

  • expects to find my-app.pdb next to my-app.exe
  • runs my-app.exe under coverage
  • places the coverage report at ./report.coverpp

Cover++ stores coverage results in a compact binary format.

View a coverage report

Section titled “View a coverage report”

To view the report you just generated, use:

Terminal window
cover++ view

This will start a local web server and open your browser. To stop the server, type q and Enter or use Ctrl+C.

By default, view (like all commands that operate on a report file) looks for ./report.coverpp. To view a different report, append the file path to the command. You can find more details here.