Preliminary test coverage analysis
[email protected] Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:25:42 -0500
| Newsgroups | perl.qa,perl.perl5.porters,perl.qa.metrics |
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I've wedged coverage analysis into Test::Harness (not quite ready for release yet) and ran it over Perl's core test suite to see how well the core modules are covered. I'm not 100% sure about this data, Devel::Coverage needs alot of work and reported alot of false negatives, but I think I can make a preliminary analysis: - A bit less than half of all the core libraries have no coverage at all. Some very important things are not covered: AutoSplit, CPAN, Cwd, Data::Dumper, MakeMaker, Pod::Html, Pod::Man and Term::ReadLine. Some of this can be fixed easily by pulling in tests from their CPAN versions. (More on this next post). - Of those covered, a smidge less than half have < 75% statement coverage. - " " " , 20% have < 50% statement coverage. That last bit is better than I expected. I would have thought more of the tests would have been of the anemic type. It seems what's there is in okay shape. I'm not going to release the raw data just yet because Devel::Coverage made alot of mistakes which I have to fix by hand. I'll see if I can doctor up a list of uncovered modules.