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Kim Gentes
Kim Gentes

Reputation: 1628

Using Visual Studio to do Code Coverage on gtest unit tests for native VS C++

Friends,

I have been looking at unit test code coverage tools for the last 2 weeks, evaluating them for our specific needs. The last one I would like to evaluate is Visual Studio's own code coverage for native C++ unit tests. In our solution, we have the following:

What I am trying to do is figure out

I have looked around these forums, MSDN and other sites (like stackoverflow) and I can't find a good source of guidance to making this combination of tools work. As I say, I have the solution, projects and unit tests running and working well, but to add code coverage I am not seeing how to do so using Microsoft's own Visual Studio code coverage.

I have already evaluated a few other packages like Software Verify, Semantic Designs, OpenCPPCoverage and Bullseye. I was hoping to try our Visual Studio's code coverage component since it is already part of our dev environment, but I can't seem to figure out how or if that will work.

Any help?

Thanks for any feedback, info you can give.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4557

Answers (1)

Kim Gentes
Kim Gentes

Reputation: 1628

After searching more, I found that what I was missing was an adapter to run the tests in VS 2013. While my tests were executing as part of the build process, they weren't generating results in the Test Explorer because it wasn't being interfaced with Visual Studio's test explorer. This can be done simply by installing an extension. The extension I found that works well for us is GoogleTest Runner, which is found in the extensions library here:

GoogleTest Runner

I am leaving this question and answer here in case others have this same issue and need some help

Upvotes: 8

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