FreeRTOS Kernel Unit Tests
Prerequisites as tested
GCC
gcc: gcc (GCC) 9.2.0
LCOV
lcov: LCOV version 1.14-6-g40580cd
Make
GNU Make 3.82
Ruby
ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16) [x86_64-linux]
Doxygen (optional)
1.8.5
Python (optional, required for coverage filtering)
Python 3.8 or later
Cflow (optional, required for coverage filtering)
cflow (GNU cflow) 1.6
How to run
$ make help
Usage: $ make <unit>
where <unit> is one of: queue doc all run run_formatted run_col
run_col_formatted coverage
Explanation
$ make queue
Would build the kernel queue unit tests and put the executable in build/bin
$ make doc
Would generate the doxygen documentation in build/doc
$ make run | run_formatted | run_col | run_col_formatted
Would build all unit tests and runs them one after the other with different options between normal and formatted and colored for easily spotting errors
$ make coverage
Would build all unit tests, runs them one after the other, then generates html code coverage and places them in build/coverage with initial file index.html
Runing tests with Address Sanitizer enabled
The GCC address sanitizer can be enabled by passing in "ENABLE_SANITIZER=1" when calling make.
Note: Enabling the address sanitizer will introduce additional branches that may not be possible to get test coverage of. For this reason, the address sanitizer is not enabled by default. It is recommended that developers enable the address sanitizer when modifying or developing new test cases.
Running individual tests
From each test directory, you can build, run the test, and generate gcov coverage with the default "all" target like so:
$ make -C list
For convenience, a "gcov" target is also provided.
$ make -C list gcov
Alternatively, you can generate filtered coverage with the "lcov" target:
$ make -C list lcov
You can also generate an html coverage report with the lcovhtml target:
$ make -C list lcovhtml
Coverage Filtering
Coverage filtering is meant to remove "unintentional" or "incidental" test coverage that is generated by other test cases which call a specific function but are not meant to test that function. In order to use coverage filtering and the associated lcov and lcovhtml targets, you must install the "optional" requirements listed above.
Additionally, you must also document which functions you are targeting inside each _utest.c file with a tag inside each file similar to the following:
@coverage vFunctionNameHere vAnotherFunctionNameHere