As of Xcode 4.3, the Clang frontend can generate code coverage reports using the same flags that were supported by GCC.
Simply open your target’s Build Settings pane in Xcode, and set the “Instrument Program Flow” and “Generate Test Coverage Files” settings to ‘Yes’. Now if you build and run your target, Xcode will output gcda
and gcov
files to a well-hidden path inside its DerivedData
directory. To find it, right click on your target in Xcode’s Products group, and select ‘Show in Finder’. Navigate up the path hierarchy to the Build
folder.
Now open up the Intermediates/$TARGET.build/$CONFIG/$TARGET.build/Objects-normal/$ARCH
subfolder. Inside, you’ll find the aforementioned gcda
and gcov
files. Since Clang outputs these files in the same format as GCC, they are compatible with tools such as Xcoverage, my OS X code coverage visualizer.