[TIP] Coverage of application which doesn't end by itself

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Thu Jun 16 07:39:58 PDT 2016


On 6/16/16 8:30 AM, David Stanek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:38 PM Li, Xiaoyan <xiaoyan.li at intel.com 
> <mailto:xiaoyan.li at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Anyone kindly gives me any suggestions how to check code coverage
>     like above test.py?
>
>
> I've used the coverage API[1] in webapps to record coverage in very 
> long running processes. I would write coverage data when someone 
> authenticated against a /dump_coverage endpoint. This allowed me to 
> run a series of tests and then dump the coverage for those tests.
>
> 1. https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/coverage-4.1/api.html
>
Another possible approach, though not one I can provide sample code for, 
is to catch a signal that you can send to the process to have it dump 
its state.

--Ned.
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