Managing multiple sessions

 

Coverage Validator can manage multiple sessions at once.

 

As well as the actively running session, open sessions may include those run since Coverage Validator started, or reloaded sessions that had been saved earlier.

 

Managers menu Session Manager... shows the Session Chooser dialog below, highlighting the current session

 

 

Each time a session is started or loaded it is added to this list, using the name of the executable program and the date and time the session started.

 

 

Managing the sessions

 

•Select makes the selected entry the current session, i.e. the one for which data will be displayed

 

Some tab views may update immediately, others may need a manual refresh

 

•Set Alias... opens the Edit Session Alias dialog so you can give the session a more useful name

 

 

•Delete removes the selected session

 

You can't delete a session that is actively collecting data.

 

•Delete All removes all the loaded sessions

 

If one of the session is actively collecting data, this will be disabled.

 

•Close closes the dialog (as opposed to closing any selected sessions!)

 

 

Merging sessions

 

When two different sessions are loaded they can be merged into one.

 

•Merge... shows the Merge Session dialog

 

 

Choose the two sessions that you want to merge.

 

•Session to merge into pick the final destination session for all merged data
 

Optionally use the resulting statistics to update the tab views (the default)
 

•Display this session... uncheck to not update the views
 

 

•Session to be merged into the other session pick the 'other' session

 

•Merge starts the merge, displaying progress as it goes

 

Note that the merged session data is not saved to disk. To save it, Select the resulting merged session to make it current, and then save the session.

 

 

 

Comparing loaded sessions

 

When two different sessions are loaded they can be compared as part of a manual regression test.

 

•Compare... shows the Compare Session dialog for comparing coverage.

 

 

Select the two sessions to compare:

 

•Baseline session the session you want to compare against
 

•Comparison session to compare against the baseline
 

•Compare shows the Session Compare dialog
 

 

The results of the comparison are shown in the top half.

 

In the visit statistics, entries with the same value are displayed once, while values that differed in each session have both values displayed.

 

 

To view the code coverage comparison for a particular file, select that file in the list at the top.

 

Scrolling one source code window will scroll the other source code window.

 

Using the drop-down list at the top, you can show All Coverage Data, or just the Differences only.

 

The other options in the dialog are identical to those in the Coverage tab.

 

 

Limiting the number of sessions

 

You can choose to limit the maximum number of sessions open at once. Once the maximum is reached, then each time a new session is added, the oldest session may automatically be removed:

 

•Auto purge sessions ensures that the number of loaded sessions is limited to the maximum (below)

 

•Maximum number of sessions sets the maximum number of sessions allowed if auto-purge is on