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Author Topic: Nice blog entry on Code Coverage  (Read 4,790 times)

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Nice blog entry on Code Coverage
« on: September 16, 2006, 04:26 AM »
I don't use code coverage but here is a nice intro post by Erik Sink (author of a book on the small software business) advocating it:

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Code coverage is a controversial subject.  Gurus have been debating the related issues for decades.  I won't pretend to be one of those experts, but I see no reason not to pass along a few thoughts from my own experience in this area.
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Re: Nice blog entry on Code Coverage
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2006, 06:15 PM »
This is what I was interested about:
Quote from: http://software.ericsink.com/articles/Code_Coverage.html
What is code coverage?

A code coverage tool simply keeps track of which parts of your code get executed and which parts do not.

Now I can decide whether or not it is important for me  :)

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