Re: coreutils test coverage

[Bo Borgerson]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> If you're reading this list, you probably noticed that some kind
> souls at Stanford uncovered a surprising number of bugs in coreutils
> recently.  Part of their analysis was coverage-related, and they
> produced these coverage reports:
> 
>     http://keeda.stanford.edu/~cristic/coreutils-dev-tests/src/
> 
> In case anyone is interested in improving test coverage,
> that gives some obvious starting points.


How cool!

That's a really useful tool.  I wonder if it might be possible to
include some instructions for producing a coverage report like that in
the project somewhere... maybe in the HACKING file?

Bo