6.2.1 Simple Code and Coverage Colors

No Color - No Coverage Data

Several C constructs do not generate executable code, so have no highlight. Examples shown above include:

• Preprocessor declarations - #include statements
• Variable declarations and initializations
• Comments or commented out code

Green - Covered and Executed

Full coverage for a line occurs when the code on that line is executed completely.

The main() function executes and returns completely, so the beginning, return and ending lines show full coverage.

The lines of the for loop are all executed to completion except for the break statement, because the if condition is never met. In loops and conditional statements, there are one or more conditions or branches which must all be tested for full coverage.

Functions that are called and complete on a line, such as calcAdd(), are fully covered.

Yellow - Partial Coverage

When code on a line is covered but only partially executed, this is considered partial coverage.

For the simple if statement, the evaluation of a<b is executed but the assignment j=1 is not. Therefore the line is partially covered. If the statements were on different lines, you will see:

The if-else statement uses binary logic to determine the branch condition. Because of the variable values chosen, the statement in only partially covered because when a has a nonzero value, b will not be evaluated.

Red - Covered but not Executed

As discussed above, in loops and conditional statements there are one or more conditions or branches which must all be tested for full coverage.

The if statement in the for loop is never true, so the following break statement is not executed.

The condition of the if-else statement is evaluated so the else branch is never selected and the following line with calcSub() is not executed.