On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:07:09PM -0700, Tony Payne wrote:
> I think Schwern's proposal of a patch for every test, applied appropriately
> will do a good job of making sure the Perl test suite has close to 100%
> functional coverage of the core. However, we should also consider doing
> code coverage analysis. This can help us to create test cases that
> accurately test the fringe cases.
>
> We could actually do a run on perl5 with the JART list and/or CPAN list to
> see how thoroughly those proposed regression suites would test it. If it
> scores less than 50% of the code, we know we need yet another suite of
> (probably more focused) regression tests.
We should also run coverage analysis on the existing perl5 testing
suite for laughs.
I have no idea what coverage tools are available for C. Someone want
to compile a list? I have also never really done much coverage
analysis. Would someone with time and experience step forward and
take responsiblity for it?
PS In case people aren't aware, there's Devel::Coverage.
--
Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse
Maybe they hooked you up with one of those ass-making magazines.
-- brian d. foy as misheard by Michael G Schwern
