Re: Preliminary test coverage analysis
[email protected] ("chromatic") Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:07:26 -0600
| Newsgroups | perl.qa,perl.qa.metrics |
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| Organization | chr0matic industries |
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In article <[email protected]>, "schwern" <[email protected]> wrote: Going back eight months, this was the state of things. Schwern had just added coverage analysis to Test::Harness: > - 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. We're aware of most of these, and most of them still don't have tests. (I'm trying, I'm trying!) > - Of those covered, a smidge less than half have < 75% statement coverage. - " > " " , 20% have < 50% statement coverage. Is it possible to get an update on this? Writing a new test from scratch is generally harder than adding to an existing test. (It's probably the blank page thing that plagues authors.) If we can identify some spots that need ~ 30 minutes/25 lines of attention, I can bang on the "get involved, you lazy bums" drum and try to find some new people. -- c