Experiences from an empirical study of programs code coverage

Abstract

The paper is devoted to functional and structural testing of programs. Experimental results of a set of programs are presented. The experiments cover selection of functional tests, analysis of function and line coverage and optimization of test suites. The comparison of code coverage results and selection of the most effective tests are discussed in the relation to the test-first approach for program development. The types of the code not covered by the tests are classified for different categories. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008.