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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse
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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

by Ram Kulkarni
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
596 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Calculating unit test coverage

Unit tests tell you whether your application code behaves as expected. Unit tests are important to maintain code quality and catch errors early in the development cycle. However, this goal is at risk if you do not write enough unit tests to test your application code, or if you have not tested all possible input conditions in the test cases and the exception paths. To measure the quality and adequacy of your test cases, you need to calculate the coverage of your test cases. In simple terms, coverage tells you what percentage of your application code was touched by running your unit tests. There are different measures to calculate coverage:

  • Number of lines covered
  • Number of branches covered (created using the ...
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