CC1312R: Code Coverage w/ CCS v10

Do you mean you cannot setup CCC10 successfully for developing CC1312 software?

I have moved your question to the Code composer Studio forum. Hopefully they will be able to answer your question.

BR

Siri

hi

For development (building, loading program, etc.) everything works ok. But we want to check how many code is covered during program run (measure Code Coverage).

We fail to setup it in CCS v10 – we think something wrong with profiler, but because it’s our first project with CC1312 and CCS we are not sure.

thanks a lot in advance

KR

Vincenzo

hi Ki,

We tried compiler based coverage, unfortunately w/o success.

We updated project with --gen_profile_info option, but after debug session termination there is no file pprofout.pdat.

We also tried to add in the code _TI_stop_pprof_collection(), but we get a compilation error. We Use CC1312, probably we are missing some includes?

thanks a lot in advance

KR

Vincenzo

Vincenzo,

Try adding extern void _TI_stop_pprof_collection(void);  at the top of the c file that has the call to _TI_stop_pprof_collection()

I wrote that app note a week ago so it is pretty new (the feature has been around for a long time).  I will make this requirement more clear in the app note.

Note that you will want to have the application setup to do the coverage capture and then push the coverage data in one shot.  I.e. setup some condition to triger the call to that function.

Regards,

John

hi John,

it works, great.

a very last question: is there a way to collect and analyze code coverage with CCS without having all source code, only compiler output file like *.out, *.map ?

The goal is to provide the QA department a tool to measure their Tests quality – coverage during the production.

thanks al ot in advance

have a great day

KR

Vincenzo

Vincenzo,

I will confirm with the compiler team but I don't think this is possible with the armcl toolchain as that second bit of processing of the .prf is done by the compiler itself.  For our new Clang/LLVM based toolset I believe it is possible to do the analysis without source.  I am working on the app note for that toolset right now and it works differently and doesn't involve the compiler for the processing of the data.  Anyway I will check and get back to you.

Regards,

John

Vincenzo,

I was able to confirm that you need access to source for the armcl solution but for the tiarmclang toolchain you can get the summary coverage information without source.  Basically it generates a report like this.  

That much will work.  If you try to click on one of the source links in that report to get further details that would fail without source.

Regards,

John