Coverage report formats supported for CDash upload

Usage
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Hello,

I could not find documentation on the supported coverage report formats ( like cobertura xml, gcov, lcov etc) or the coverage tools, which can be used with ctest_coverage to be uploaded to CDash.

Where can I find this and is it possible to add this to the documentation.

Thanks

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Cc: @zackgalbreath

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Hello,

Would you say this article is still accurate? Additional Coverage Features in CDash (kitware.com)

I see that cobertura is also supported? CTEST_COVERAGE_COMMAND — CMake 3.29.0-rc1 Documentation

Thanks

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You’re right that documentation is sparse here, that is something that we should work to improve.

In the meantime, here are some tests that demonstrate the various additional coverage formats that CTest understands:

HTH!

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Thank you very much! Really appreciate it!

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@zackgalbreath Hey Zack, I was trying to figure out, how to use the cobertura output with line coverage, branch coverage and submit it to cdash dashboard. However, without success. Can you share instructions how to?
The language used is C/C++, but I guess this is irrelevant? I’m on cmake 3.28.3.

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To the best of my knowledge, CTest’s Cobertura parser currently only captures line coverage (not branch coverage).