Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Dinner wrote: > On 8/22/07, Sean Corfield wrote: >> >> The point of code coverage is *measurability*. By definition, you get >> better coverage by having better tests but that's irrelevant to the >> process of figuring out the *amount* of coverage. > > I could see how one could say "I tested for

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-22 Thread Dinner
On 8/22/07, Sean Corfield wrote: > > On 8/21/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That wikipedia ROCKS! > > Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia - it's descriptions of > some design patterns are pitiful, for example. Fo sho- Did you see the page on Dada "Art"? ;-) Do you ever edit

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On 8/21/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wikipedia ROCKS! Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia - it's descriptions of some design patterns are pitiful, for example. > Seems like the most plausible way to get that kind of > "coverage" is through Test Driven Design The point

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Dinner
That wikipedia ROCKS! Seems like the most plausible way to get that kind of "coverage" is through Test Driven Design, and I mean the kind where you sorta define the thing you're trying to build in the empty space of the tests, or whatever. Automated might get buffer-overflow type stuff, but I thi

RE: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Jaime Metcher
on of whether this is a serious possibility for them. Maybe if there's enough demand it'd move up the priority list? Jaime Metcher > -Original Message- > From: Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 12:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE

RE: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Rich
It looks as though I am going to have to develop a solution for our needs, but I will see if my company will allow me to release our efforts into the public domain. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PD

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 8/20/07, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of a code coverage tool for CF unit tests? If not, how are > the rest of you handling unit test coverage (if at all)? I get this question a lot since I'm doing a lot of automation/testing consulting in the CF world and the answer is no

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Christopher Vigliotti
@dinner: code coverage determines the percentage of your code that is actually being unit tested. For example, you could have a function in a component that has a test case written for it, but the function could contain if/elself/else statements, switch statements or other conditional logic that t

RE: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Rich
> What do you mean by code coverage? Per the wonders of wikipedia: "Code coverage is a measure used in software testing. It describes the degree to which the source code of a program has been tested." I have just joined a new team, and we have quite a bit of legacy code for older products and we

Re: Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-21 Thread Dinner
On 8/20/07, Rich wrote: > Is anyone aware of a code coverage tool for CF unit tests? If not, how are > the rest of you handling unit test coverage (if at all)? The CFUnit view in CFEclipse is cool, and there's also the TPTP JUnit auto-generated stuff, but honestly, selenium has been the most usef

Unit Testing & Code Coverage

2007-08-20 Thread Rich
Is anyone aware of a code coverage tool for CF unit tests? If not, how are the rest of you handling unit test coverage (if at all)? - Rich Kroll ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax fea