Re: What is Code Coverage

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basically a measurement of which instructions are actually executed.  

Very useful if trying to determine whether your test cases do in fact exercise all possible code paths.


Jon Paris

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On May 22, 2015, at 11:36 AM, darren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Just saw a recent post from Edmund Reinhardt about a Test Optimizer, so I
> look at the tutorial, and it talks about Code Coverage, which I thought was
> a java only tool, but the tutorial shows some RPG programs.  So, me being a
> green screen programmer for a business centered around an MRP package, does
> Code Coverage mean anything to me?  I did try running a Code Coverage
> Report against one of my programs, and I see a list of my sub-procedures
> with various Coverage %s, but I don't see what that means to me.
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