Code coverage through overlay hooks
View Patent ↗In an approach for utilizing overlay hooks to increase code coverage, a processor inserts an overlay hook in program code at a location within the program code corresponding to a condition statement. A processor executes the program code. Upon reaching the overlay hook, a processor branches to a set of instructions operative to document an outcome of the condition statement. A processor executes the condition statement. A processor records the outcome of the condition statement.
1. A method for utilizing overlay hooks to increase code coverage, the method comprising:
compiling, by one or more processors, a program code with branches broken apart to test only one possible condition state at each condition statement;
analyzing, by one or more processors, debug information to identify a location within the program code corresponding to a condition statement;
exchanging, by one or more processors, the condition statement for an overlay hook at the location within the program code;
executing, by one or more processors, the program code;
upon reaching the overlay hook, branching, by one or more processors, to a set of instructions operative to document an outcome state of the condition statement, wherein the outcome state of the condition statement is selected from the group consisting of true, false, less than, equal to, and greater than;
executing, by one or more processors, the condition statement;
recording, by one or more processors, the outcome state of the condition statement and the location of the condition statement within the program code in a table;
accessing, by one or more processors, the table;
determining, by one or more processors, whether each possible outcome state of the condition statement has been recorded in the table;
responsive to determining that each possible outcome state of the condition statement has not been recorded in the table, continuing to execute the program code;
responsive to determining that each possible outcome state of the condition statement has been recorded in the table, removing, by one or more processors, the overlay hook; and
generating, by one or more processors, a report, wherein the report includes the recorded outcome state of the condition statement and the location within the program code corresponding to the condition statement.