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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+set -x
+
+# EXECUTE enough code via the autotest tool to see coverage results
+# afterwards, but don't build/rebuild anything our aim here is to try
+# to execute as many code path/s as we have available to us, and we'll
+# afterward report on the percentage of code executed and not executed
+# etc.
+
+export GCOV_ENABLED=1 # not sure this is required
+export CCFLAGS="$CCFLAGS -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
+export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage"
+export LINKFLAGS="$LINKFLAGS -lgcov -coverage"
+
+# Run examples
+./waf configure --board=linux
+./waf examples
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py run.examples
+
+# Run unit tests
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py build.unit_tests run.unit_tests
+
+# Run main vehicle tests
+SPEEDUP=5
+TIMEOUT=14400
+
+OPTS="--speedup=$SPEEDUP --timeout=$TIMEOUT --debug --no-clean"
+
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.ArduPlane fly.ArduPlane fly.QuadPlane
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.ArduSub dive.ArduSub
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.ArduCopter fly.ArduCopter
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.Helicopter fly.CopterAVC
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.AntennaTracker test.AntennaTracker
+./Tools/autotest/autotest.py $OPTS build.APMrover2 drive.APMrover2
+
+#TODO add any other execution path/s we can to maximise the actually
+# used code, can we run other tests or things?  Replay, perhaps?
+
+REPORT_DIR="reports/lcov-report"
+rm -rf "$REPORT_DIR"
+mkdir -p "$REPORT_DIR"
+
+INFO_FILE="$REPORT_DIR/lcov.info"
+
+LCOV_LOG="GCOV_lcov.log"
+GENHTML_LOG="GCOV_genhtml.log"
+
+lcov --no-external --capture --directory $PWD -o "$INFO_FILE" 2>&1 | tee $LCOV_LOG
+lcov --remove "$INFO_FILE" ".waf*" -o "$INFO_FILE" 2>&1 | tee -a $LCOV_LOG
+
+genhtml "$INFO_FILE" -o "$REPORT_DIR" 2>&1 | tee $GENHTML_LOG
+
+echo "Coverage successful. Open $REPORT_DIR/index.html"