--- stage: Verify group: Testing info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments type: reference, howto --- # Test coverage visualization **(FREE)** > - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/3708) in GitLab 12.9. > - [Feature flag removed](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/249811) in GitLab 13.5. With the help of [GitLab CI/CD](../../../ci/index.md), you can collect the test coverage information of your favorite testing or coverage-analysis tool, and visualize this information inside the file diff view of your merge requests (MRs). This will allow you to see which lines are covered by tests, and which lines still require coverage, before the MR is merged. ![Test Coverage Visualization Diff View](img/test_coverage_visualization_v12_9.png) ## How test coverage visualization works Collecting the coverage information is done via GitLab CI/CD's [artifacts reports feature](../../../ci/yaml/index.md#artifactsreports). You can specify one or more coverage reports to collect, including wildcard paths. GitLab then takes the coverage information in all the files and combines it together. Coverage files are parsed in a background job so there can be a delay between pipeline completion and the visualization loading on the page. For the coverage analysis to work, you have to provide a properly formatted [Cobertura XML](https://cobertura.github.io/cobertura/) report to [`artifacts:reports:cobertura`](../../../ci/yaml/artifacts_reports.md#artifactsreportscobertura). This format was originally developed for Java, but most coverage analysis frameworks for other languages have plugins to add support for it, like: - [simplecov-cobertura](https://rubygems.org/gems/simplecov-cobertura) (Ruby) - [gocover-cobertura](https://github.com/boumenot/gocover-cobertura) (Golang) Other coverage analysis frameworks support the format out of the box, for example: - [Istanbul](https://istanbul.js.org/docs/advanced/alternative-reporters/#cobertura) (JavaScript) - [Coverage.py](https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/coverage-5.0.4/cmd.html#xml-reporting) (Python) Once configured, if you create a merge request that triggers a pipeline which collects coverage reports, the coverage is shown in the diff view. This includes reports from any job in any stage in the pipeline. The coverage displays for each line: - `covered` (green): lines which have been checked at least once by tests - `no test coverage` (orange): lines which are loaded but never executed - no coverage information: lines which are non-instrumented or not loaded Hovering over the coverage bar provides further information, such as the number of times the line was checked by tests. NOTE: A limit of 100 `` nodes for Cobertura format XML files applies. If your Cobertura report exceeds 100 nodes, there can be mismatches or no matches in the merge request diff view. ### Artifact expiration By default, the [pipeline artifact](../../../ci/pipelines/pipeline_artifacts.md#storage) used to draw the visualization on the merge request expires **one week** after creation. ### Automatic class path correction > - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217664) in GitLab 13.8. > - [Feature flag removed](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/284822) in GitLab 13.9. The coverage report properly matches changed files only if the `filename` of a `class` element contains the full path relative to the project root. However, in some coverage analysis frameworks, the generated Cobertura XML has the `filename` path relative to the class package directory instead. To make an intelligent guess on the project root relative `class` path, the Cobertura XML parser attempts to build the full path by: - Extracting a portion of the `source` paths from the `sources` element and combining them with the class `filename` path. - Checking if the candidate path exists in the project. - Using the first candidate that matches as the class full path. #### Path correction example As an example, a project with: - A full path of `test-org/test-project`. - The following files relative to the project root: ```shell Auth/User.cs Lib/Utils/User.cs src/main/java ``` In the: - Cobertura XML, the `filename` attribute in the `class` element assumes the value is a relative path to the project's root: ```xml ``` - `sources` from Cobertura XML, the following paths in the format `//...`: ```xml /builds/test-org/test-project/Auth /builds/test-org/test-project/Lib/Utils ``` The parser: - Extracts `Auth` and `Lib/Utils` from the `sources` and uses these to determine the `class` path relative to the project root. - Combines these extracted `sources` and the class filename. For example, if there is a `class` element with the `filename` value of `User.cs`, the parser takes the first candidate path that matches, which is `Auth/User.cs`. - For each `class` element, attempts to look for a match for each extracted `source` path up to 100 iterations. If it reaches this limit without finding a matching path in the file tree, the class is not included in the final coverage report. NOTE: Automatic class path correction only works on `source` paths in the format `//...`. The `source` is ignored if the path does not follow this pattern. The parser assumes that the `filename` of a `class` element contains the full path relative to the project root. ## Example test coverage configurations ### JavaScript example The following [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md) example uses [Mocha](https://mochajs.org/) JavaScript testing and [nyc](https://github.com/istanbuljs/nyc) coverage-tooling to generate the coverage artifact: ```yaml test: script: - npm install - npx nyc --reporter cobertura mocha artifacts: reports: cobertura: coverage/cobertura-coverage.xml ``` ### Java and Kotlin examples #### Maven example The following [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md) example for Java or Kotlin uses [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) to build the project and [JaCoCo](https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/) coverage-tooling to generate the coverage artifact. You can check the [Docker image configuration and scripts](https://gitlab.com/haynes/jacoco2cobertura) if you want to build your own image. GitLab expects the artifact in the Cobertura format, so you have to execute a few scripts before uploading it. The `test-jdk11` job tests the code and generates an XML artifact. The `coverage-jdk-11` job converts the artifact into a Cobertura report: ```yaml test-jdk11: stage: test image: maven:3.6.3-jdk-11 script: - mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS clean org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin:prepare-agent test jacoco:report artifacts: paths: - target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml coverage-jdk11: # Must be in a stage later than test-jdk11's stage. # The `visualize` stage does not exist by default. # Please define it first, or choose an existing stage like `deploy`. stage: visualize image: registry.gitlab.com/haynes/jacoco2cobertura:1.0.7 script: # convert report from jacoco to cobertura, using relative project path - python /opt/cover2cover.py target/site/jacoco/jacoco.xml $CI_PROJECT_DIR/src/main/java/ > target/site/cobertura.xml needs: ["test-jdk11"] artifacts: reports: cobertura: target/site/cobertura.xml ``` #### Gradle example The following [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md) example for Java or Kotlin uses [Gradle](https://gradle.org/) to build the project and [JaCoCo](https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/) coverage-tooling to generate the coverage artifact. You can check the [Docker image configuration and scripts](https://gitlab.com/haynes/jacoco2cobertura) if you want to build your own image. GitLab expects the artifact in the Cobertura format, so you have to execute a few scripts before uploading it. The `test-jdk11` job tests the code and generates an XML artifact. The `coverage-jdk-11` job converts the artifact into a Cobertura report: ```yaml test-jdk11: stage: test image: gradle:6.6.1-jdk11 script: - 'gradle test jacocoTestReport' # jacoco must be configured to create an xml report artifacts: paths: - build/jacoco/jacoco.xml coverage-jdk11: # Must be in a stage later than test-jdk11's stage. # The `visualize` stage does not exist by default. # Please define it first, or chose an existing stage like `deploy`. stage: visualize image: registry.gitlab.com/haynes/jacoco2cobertura:1.0.7 script: # convert report from jacoco to cobertura, using relative project path - python /opt/cover2cover.py build/jacoco/jacoco.xml $CI_PROJECT_DIR/src/main/java/ > build/cobertura.xml needs: ["test-jdk11"] artifacts: reports: cobertura: build/cobertura.xml ``` ### Python example The following [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md) example for Python uses [pytest-cov](https://pytest-cov.readthedocs.io/) to collect test coverage data and [coverage.py](https://coverage.readthedocs.io/) to convert the report to use full relative paths. The information isn't displayed without the conversion. This example assumes that the code for your package is in `src/` and your tests are in `tests.py`: ```yaml run tests: stage: test image: python:3 script: - pip install pytest pytest-cov - coverage run -m pytest - coverage report - coverage xml artifacts: reports: cobertura: coverage.xml ``` ### C/C++ example The following [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md) example for C/C++ with `gcc` or `g++` as the compiler uses [`gcovr`](https://gcovr.com/en/stable/) to generate the coverage output file in Cobertura XML format. This example assumes: - That the `Makefile` is created by `cmake` in the `build` directory, within another job in a previous stage. (If you use `automake` to generate the `Makefile`, then you need to call `make check` instead of `make test`.) - `cmake` (or `automake`) has set the compiler option `--coverage`. ```yaml run tests: stage: test script: - cd build - make test - gcovr --xml-pretty --exclude-unreachable-branches --print-summary -o coverage.xml --root ${CI_PROJECT_DIR} coverage: /^\s*lines:\s*\d+.\d+\%/ artifacts: name: ${CI_JOB_NAME}-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}-${CI_COMMIT_SHA} expire_in: 2 days reports: cobertura: build/coverage.xml ```