I thought that's all that code coverage was for - to ensure that the tests you're writing are indeed going via the paths you expect. if something isn't covered, either you've missed a test or you've written a test incorrectly, or your code is wrong. Coverage isn't there to check assertions, or so I thought.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Josh Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The discussion of the different types of coverage is interesting. I hadn't > actually seen the C0/C1/C2 definitions before. > The interesting thing about code coverage is that it only ever tells you > definitively that code *isn't* covered. It doesn't tell you whether: > > 1) any assertions were made about the code that was run by your tests, or > 2) if assertions were made, that they were correct. > > Heckle as an expression mutator achieves #1, but does it really fit in the > same scale (ie C4) as coverage? > > Perhaps only a human can truly achieve #2. > > Josh > > On 20/11/2008, at 10:02 PM, Andrew Grimm wrote: > > 'twas I! > > I happened to add question http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rcov+FAQ#l9 to the > FAQ. > > Weren't we disagreeing on whether rcov provides anything more than C0, > rather than the definition of C1 and C2 (is heckle C-4?) > > The stack overflow question I was discussing was > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289321/does-c1-code-coverage-analysis-exist-for-ruby > > Andrew > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> While we're on the topic of code coverage...to whoever I was talking to >> about rcov, my definitions of C0/C1/C2 were incorrect, so if you'd like to >> read up on exactly what they mean I'd suggest you check out Mauricio >> Fernandez's description [1]. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Nathan de Vries >> >> [1] http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rcov >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
