3 Structural testing and code coverage
This chapter covers
- Creating test cases based on the code structure
- Combining structural testing and specification-based testing
- Using code coverage properly
- Why some developers (wrongly) dislike code coverage
In the previous chapter, we discussed using software requirements as the main element to guide the testing. Once specification-based testing is done, the next step is to augment the test suite with the help of the source code. There are several reasons to do so.
First, you may have forgotten a partition or two when analyzing the requirements, and you may notice that while looking at the source code. Second, when implementing code, you take advantage of language constructs, algorithms, and data structures ...
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