Monday, August 01, 2005

Code coverage tools

Even if we are using JUnit and NUnit for executing our unit test cases, there are still some loopholes left. For e.g. how do we test that all paths in the code have been covered in the test cases? What code are the tests actually testing? What code isn't being tested? Is the test suite getting out of date?

Code coverage tools prove to be invaluable in such occasions. These tools instrument the code/binaries to discover those sections of the code that have not been tested.

Two such tools for Java and .NET are provided by Clover:
http://www.cenqua.com/clover/
http://www.cenqua.com/clover.net/

Check out the trail versions and see the benefits Urself..

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