lclint-interest message 155

From aissi@adi.com Thu Sep 18 13:29:51 1997
From: aissi@adi.com (Selim Aissi)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
To: lclint-interest@larch.lcs.mit.edu, kir@iitb.fhg.de
Subject: Re: test coverage
Cc: aissi@bluegill.adi.com
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Hi there:

The only free and useful coverage tool available to the community is GCT
(Generic Coverage Tool), developed and distributed by Brian Marick.  The tool
has been available for many years, and is in a very stable condition.

Tcov is fine but it is limited to Statement coverage (the lowest possible
coverage requirement).
GCT, however, goes all the way to loop coverage.

Selim Aissi
Applied Dynamics International
Ann Arbor, Michigan

> 
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> since all of you are obviously interested in quality code, maybe one of
> you knows a good (and free) test coverage analysis tool. Tcov is fine,
> but I remember one which took into account branch paths. It worked quite
> well, but I don't remember the name and cannot find it in several FAQs
> and on AltaVista.
> 
> 	Harald
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