How to use "enableCodeCoverage" flag For Xcode test step

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Is there a way to use the new “enableCodeCoverage” from Xcode 8 for generating coverage files using llvm-cov instead of using gcov. I tried placing the flag in the “Additional options for xcodebuild build test call” section and setting the “Generate code coverage files?” to no, but when looking at the build logs, I don’t see it being used. Also is there a way to get the path of where the coverage log is store in derived data?

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Hi @eman6576,

Why do you think that? What’s the xcodebuild ... command in the build log? Can you please copy paste it?

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I see this: $ env "NSUnbufferedIO=YES" xcodebuild "-workspace" "BaseAppV2.xcworkspace" "-scheme" "BaseAppV2" "test" "-destination" "platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 6,OS=latest" "-enableCodeCoverage" "YES". But towards the end of the step, I don’t see an indication of the coverage report generated successfully or not. I do see this: ** TEST SUCCEEDED **

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If you use the -enableCodeCoverage option the generated profile should be at $PROJECT_TEMP_ROOT/CodeCoverage/$PROJECT_NAME/Coverage.profdata - source:

You can run the same command locally on your Mac to test it, or with our CLI (How to debug your build locally / "It works on my Mac/PC but not on bitrise.io")

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So it would be $BITRISE_PROJECT_PATH/CodeCoverage/BaseAppV2/Coverage.profdata?

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Did you try to run the xcodebuild command locally, or use the CLI to run the build locally?

Yes, most likely, but depends on your Xcode project configs.

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I tried it locally.

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And where was the generated .profdata ?

Note: you can use the command line find to find files quickly: find . -name '*.profdata' to search in the current directory and the dirs below that.

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/Users/Emanuel/Desktop/SilverLogic/baseapp-ios-v2/DerivedData/BaseAppV2/Build/Intermediates/CodeCoverage

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Then doing ls I see Coverage.profdata Intermediates Products ProfileData. So think the path would be
$PROJECT_TEMP_ROOT/CodeCoverage then?

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It can be, although it seems that you have some related custom (non default) options in your Xcode project, e.g. DerivedData by default shouldn’t be in the source code’s dir.

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I think I have a setting of showing hidden directories locally.

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DerivedData (by default) is not a hidden directory, but a directory outside of the source code dir (~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData)

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In any case, I’d suggest you to run the build locally with the Bitrise CLI and check where the file is - it’ll be at the same location on bitrise.io too. E.g. relative to the repository root $BITRISE_SOURCE_DIR/rel/path/...

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I tried something different. When running tests, I added this flag: -derivedDataPath ./out. Then I wrote a script that access the directory and prints the Coverage.profdata.

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Think the derived data in source directory has something to do with the issue i’m having. Is there a way not to have it in the source directory?

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What’s the issue exactly? I thought you just needed the location of the code coverage data. Is there something else?

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I was able to resolve the issue. Codecov came out with a new feature where you can get the report throught plist files instead. Sorry for the late response.

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Thanks for reporting @eman6576 - I’ll mark this as resolved