package bisect_ppx
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Bisect_ppx
Bisect_ppx is a code coverage tool for OCaml. It helps you test thoroughly by showing which parts of your code are not tested.
For a live demonstration, see the coverage report Bisect_ppx generates for itself.
Instructions
Most of these commands go in a Makefile
or other script, so that you only have to run that script, then refresh your browser.
Install Bisect_ppx.
opam install bisect_ppx
Add
bisect_ppx
to your library- or executable-under-test. Instructions are also available for Ocamlbuild, ocamlfind, and OASIS.(library (public_name my_code) (preprocess (pps bisect_ppx -conditional)))
Don't add
bisect_ppx
to your tests.Run your test binary. In addition to testing your code, it will produce one or more files with names like
bisect0001.out
.BISECT_ENABLE=yes dune runtest
Generate the coverage report.
bisect-ppx-report -I _build/default/ -html coverage/ `find . -name 'bisect*.out'`
Open
coverage/index.html
!In each file of the report,
Green lines contain expressions, all of which were visited.
Red lines contain expressions, none of which were visited.
Yellow lines contain expressions, some of which were visited, but others not.
White lines are those that don't contain visitable expressions. They may have type declarations, keywords, or something else that Bisect_ppx did not, or cannot instrument.
See also the advanced usage.
Coveralls.io
You can generate a Coveralls json report using the bisect-ppx-report
tool with the -coveralls
flag. Note that Bisect_ppx reports are more precise than Coveralls, which only considers whole lines as visited or not. The built-in Coveralls reporter will consider a full line unvisited if any point on that line is not visited, check the html report to verify precisly which points are not covered.
Example using the built-in Coveralls reporter on Travis CI (which sets $TRAVIS_JOB_ID
):
bisect-ppx-report \
-I _build/default/ \
-coveralls coverage.json \
-service-name travis-ci \
-service-job-id $TRAVIS_JOB_ID \
`find . -name 'bisect*.out'`
curl -L -F json_file=@./coverage.json https://coveralls.io/api/v1/jobs
Bisect_ppx in practice
A small sample of projects using Bisect_ppx:
License
Bisect_ppx is available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL). To summarize, you can incorporate Bisect_ppx into proprietary projects. If you make modifications to Bisect_ppx, you have to open-source them. The rest of your project remains proprietary.
Essentially, this is like the BSD or MIT licenses, except that if you include a customized Bisect_ppx in a release (as opposed to private use), you have to make the altered source visible. This can be done by contributing the changes back, keeping Bisect_ppx in a visible fork, or if your bigger project itself also happens to be open source.
Besides proprietary licenses, MPL is compatible with BSD/MIT/Apache- and (L)GPL-licensed projects. See the MPL 2.0 FAQ.
The Ocamlbuild plugin is dedicated to the public domain.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are warmly welcome. Bisect_ppx is developed on GitHub, so please open an issue.
To get the latest development version of Bisect_ppx using OPAM, run
opam source --dev-repo --pin bisect_ppx
You will now have a bisect_ppx
subdirectory to work in.