Re: [gpsd-dev] Python Coverage Support

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Fred Wright wrote:

> I've pushed two new commits to my test-fixes branch on GitHub.  The first
> arranges to apply Python coveraging to any Python programs (except
> generated Python programs) executed during a build with coveraging
> enabled.  The second adds three quick regression-style tests that run
> passthrough.log in all three transport modes to get better test coverage
> in fake.py.
>
> Diffs here:
>
>       https://github.com/fhgwright/gpsd/compare/master...test-fixes

One of those changes caused coveraging to break when the Python coverage
tool couldn't be found (though it could be worked around by setting
python_coverage to an empty string).  That's now fixed in another commit,
and there's another that makes the tests work when here's no 'python2'
command.

Same diff URL.

Fred Wright