Exclude Files/Lines of code in Xcode 7 Code Coverage

Question

How would you exclude a few methods, or say the AppDelegate file, from being tested during Code Coverage in Xcode 7?

I am not using Gcov.

Answer 1

Xcode coverage is generated by target (you can enabled it per scheme). Something I often do is separate all my testable code into a separate DynamicFramework from all my UI code. I can generate coverage just for that one framework if i like.

Alternatively you could look at some of the 3rd party coverage parsing tools such as:

• xcov
• slather

Each tool will generate you a set of coverage metrics (based on the coverage data generated by Xcode) and they have the ability to exclude specific files from the coverage generation.

Xcov

--ignore_file_path -x: Relative or absolute path to the file containing the list of ignored files.

Slather

# .slather.yml
ignore:
 - ExamplePodCode/*
 - ProjectTestsGroup/*

Personally I find that xcov is nicer to look at but slather is slightly more detailed