Enabling Code Coverage

Before you run an application in code coverage mode and produce code coverage statistics, you must enable code coverage in the properties of your project, a project's build configuration or in the properties of the project's files. You then need to build your application.

To enable code coverage for your project:

  1. Open your project's properties, expand Micro Focus > Project Settings and click the PL/I Compile Settings tab.
    Note: If different from the project settings, the build configuration settings take precedence over the project settings when you build your application. If you enabled code coverage at project level but do not receive any results when you run the application, it might be because the application was executed in a build configuration which does not have code coverage enabled. To work around this, always ensure code coverage is enabled for the build configuration you are running your application in.
  2. Set Generate coverage data (-testcover) to Yes.
  3. Click Apply and Close.

To enable code coverage for a build configuration of your project:

  1. Open your project's properties, expand Micro Focus > Build Configurations and click the PL/I Compile Settings tab.
  2. Check Enable configuration specific settings.
  3. Set Generate coverage data (-testcover) to Yes.
  4. Click Apply and Close.

To enable code coverage for individual files in your project:

  1. Open a file's properties and click the COBOL tab.
  2. Check Enable file specific settings, and then set Generate coverage data (-testcover) to Yes.
  3. Click Apply and Close.
Note: If Build Automatically is not enabled in the IDE, you need to build your project manually.

If your application executes in an enterprise server, you also need to configure the server to run in code coverage mode:

  1. In the IDE, open Server Explorer.
  2. Right-click the server that is associated with your application and click Configure Analysis > Code Coverage.
Parent topic: Code Coverage (PL/I)