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Xcode 16.1 beta (and Slather 2.8.4) - Failed to load coverage: unsupported instrumentation profile format version

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by examining how Slather loads the attached Coverage.profdata and how it invokes Xcode coverage tools; the issue provides the failing format-version error but names no source file or test. Compare behavior on Xcode 16.1 beta CI and local Apple Silicon, then identify a reproducible input and test path. Done means Slather can process the affected coverage profile or reports the incompatibility clearly.

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Description

I recently updated to Slather 2.8.4 to fix the Xcode 16 compatibility issue.

Using Xcode 16.1 beta, It works well locally, so thank you for that :)
But when running in CI (Azure DevOps), I get the following error

Slathering...
error: Failed to load coverage: '/Users/runner/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Assets-cecsqcpehsibqugchwzmtqbbxlil/Build/ProfileData/21543275-1377-4AC5-82B2-8929738D1C83/Coverage.profdata': unsupported instrumentation profile format version
error: Could not load coverage information
Slathered

I've attached the Coverage.profdata file, but I'm not sure what else I can do to investigate the issue. If there is anything else I can provide to help, please let me know.

Coverage.profdata.zip

One possible reason is the Azure DevOps build agent is an Intel mac and I'm running on Apple Silicon locally. This previously worked fine with Xcode 15.

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