vscode.md

Integration with vscode

It's easy to produce output for parsing with the coverage gutters extension to vscode. The --cobertura-only option is well-suited for this, which only outputs a cov.xml file and the coverage database in the output directory. Coverage information can then be directly shown in the "gutter" beside the editor, and is automatically updated by the extension when the coverage changes.

To produce this output, just run

kcov --cobertura-only [other options] /path/to/your/folder/.vscode /path/to/the/binary

The coverage gutters extension looks for cov.xml files in the workspace, but for performance reasons, it's good to configure it to only look where the kcov output is (.vscode) in this example.