On Dec 2, 11:36 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> >> Verifying correctness of tests is not a waste of time.
>
> > I don't know what the current coverage is, but lets say for argument
> > it needs another 1000 tests to get 100% coverage. It's better to
> > verify those 1000 tests now, rather than wait to we get 100% coverage,
> > then go back and verify them.
>
> Orthogonal to your remark, but in sage-4.6:
>
> $ sage -coverageall
> ...
> Overall weighted coverage score:  84.3%
> Total number of functions:  26592
> We need  173 more function to get to 85% coverage.
> We need 1503 more function to get to 90% coverage.
> We need 2833 more function to get to 95% coverage.
>
> It's only 2,833 tests!
>
That figure assume that there are no duplicate tests in sage. They
are unfortunately a fact of life, like the two described here while
testing
sage-on-gentoo:
https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/issues/closed#issue/8

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