Normally, Rebar runs eunit tests in the order the beam files are
stored in the file system (see rebar_utils:beams). However, sometimes
it is desirable to run the tests in a different order (e.g. to
reproduce an error found on a build server). For that case, it would
make sense to use the 'suites' parameter not just for selecting which
modules to consider, but also for choosing the order.
Cover gets slower and slower for each application. This is due to the
cover_server internal state. Stopping the cover server between
eunit+cover runs, emptying the cover_server state, gives a ~5-6x speed
improvement when analyzing many Erlang modules. Stopping the cover
server replaces the earlier practice of doing a cover:reset before each
run. On a project consisting of 62 dependencies with a total of 1866
Erlang modules the running time of rebar eunit decreased from ~20
minutes to ~3 minutes.
Make sure files from erl_opts->src_dirs are copied to .eunit for cover
inspection.
Without this patch cover failed to find source files which were in
src_dirs, and threw the following exception:
ERROR: eunit failed while processing
/path/to/project:
{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,no_source_code_found}},
[{rebar_eunit,'-cover_analyze/3-fun-0-',1,
[{file,"src/rebar_eunit.erl"},{line,280}]},
{lists,foreach,2,[{file,"lists.erl"},{line,1262}]},
{rebar_eunit,cover_analyze,3,
[{file,"src/rebar_eunit.erl"},{line,279}]},
{rebar_eunit,eunit,2,[{file,"src/rebar_eunit.erl"},{line,140}]},
{rebar_core,run_modules,4,[{file,"src/rebar_core.erl"},{line,425}]},
{rebar_core,execute,5,[{file,"src/rebar_core.erl"},{line,359}]},
{rebar_core,process_dir0,6,[{file,"src/rebar_core.erl"},{line,223}]},
{rebar_core,process_dir,4,
[{file,"src/rebar_core.erl"},{line,130}]}]}}
Now all source files are copied to .eunit.
Before copying the .erl files to the .eunit directory ensure that they
are deleted if they already exist. This prevents EACCES errors to happen
when trying to re-copy .erl files that are read-only.
Avoid error reports like this one:
prompt$ rebar eunit
==> dummy (eunit)
Test passed.
=ERROR REPORT==== 29-Dec-2011::23:22:11 ===
** Generic server inet_gethost_native_sup terminating
** Last message in was {'EXIT',<0.62.0>,killed}
** When Server state == {state,inet_gethost_native,undefined,<0.62.0>,
{local,inet_gethost_native_sup}}
** Reason for termination ==
** killed
Previously, it could happen if an eunit test did something that
required a name lookup, like in this example:
-module(dummy_tests).
-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
x_test() ->
{ok, _Hostent} = inet:gethostbyname(localhost).
The inet_gethost_native is a process, started on demand, under a
supervisor_bridge under the kernel_sup, but it is not a gen_server
process or the like, so it has nothing in '$ancestors' in its process
dictionary to indicate it is part of kernel.
This means that applications get a chance to shut down themselves,
before rebar will start killing their processes. This avoids ERROR
REPORTS from application supervisors.
