Code Coverage
Managers love numbers. The concept of code coverage—how much code is unit-tested—is one that tickles the typical manager’s number fetish but ultimately leaves a bad taste when used for anything but educational purposes.
More specifically, code coverage is a measure of the percentage of code that your unit tests execute. You can find tools that do the dirty work of taking the measurements. Emma (which we show briefly here—it’s a free and easily installed Eclipse plugin) and Cobertura are examples of code-coverage tools.
Imagine that you have a Coverage class containing only one method, named soleMethod(), and that soleMethod() contains a single nonconditional statement. If you run a unit test that calls soleMethod(), the statement ...
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