Are there any tools for performing code coverage analysis on QML code? Is such a question even applicable to a declarative language like QML?
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Its really interesting question. First what came to my head is "Tools -> QML/JS -> Run Checks" in QtCreator.
- tro
It's really interesting, indeed. The coverage should involve any js function as well as bindings, property assignments, and so on. I guess it's not so easy to do on QML, for some features are directly accessible by instrumenting the QML files, while some others require to instrument the C++ code (as an example - unless you don't care about if and when a dynamic binding happens, but you are interested on the code executed by that function). The same happens if you have classes written in C++ and exported to the QML environment, of course.
- skypjack
This or perhaps in future this?
- Steve Chambers
The first one doesn't cover the C++ code, anyway. Am I wrong?
- skypjack
Hm. Since QML is declarative with som js on top, and since declarative probably won't need any coverage test, maybe a tool that separates out js and does coverage on that would do?
- Lennart Rolland
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There was a talk recently on QtCon about C++ and QML code coverage. https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/407 (Open the page and click on video link to watch)
The talk was by Harri Porten who is co-founder and co-CEO of froglogic GmbH, a company which sells automated GUI testing tools. They also have a blog post about QML code coverage http://blog.froglogic.com/2014/10/measuring-qml-coverage/
