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Re: [Help-bash] question about bash tests folder (test cases)
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] question about bash tests folder (test cases) |
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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:49:13 -0500 |
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On 1/30/13 7:16 PM, Nouroz Borazjany, Mehra wrote:
> Hi
> My name is Mehra and I am PhD student at UTA. My research is about testing
> and I picked bash as one of my subjects.
> I noticed that there is a folder in the bash source file directory , call
> tests, my question is how your developer team come up with these test
> cases. Are these tests have a specific target? are you testing specific
> functionality?
It's an accrual of a combination of tests for basic functionality, tests
using an old code coverage tool (pure coverage, back in the day), and
tests that encapsulate bug reports and fixes.
> I run the test cases for version version 2.01.0(34)-release , and measure
> the code coverage of the source code with gcov and I got 70% function
> coverage.
That's actually pretty good for something which is mostly used
interactively.
Chet
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