pytest-c-code

Here I would like show how can you test c code with pytest and get coverage. I am using a simple calculator.c to get the check the tests coverage of the binaries

Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv toolchain

The above command creates a virtual environment named toolchain. Activate the toolchain in order to install our dependencies

 source toolchain/bin/activate

Now install dependencies from the requirements.txt file

pip install -r requirement.txt

We use gcovr package to get the coverage for the test run

pytest tests.py::test_function_name

This will output an txt file which shows us the code coverage by that function.