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Basic Code Coverage Question [message #1797439]

Tue, 30 October 2018 22:57

Reinhardt Christiansen

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Registered: March 2010

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I gave the code coverage functionality in Eclipse (2018-09) a whirl today and was rather surprised by the report it generated. My class, which is a JUnit5 Test Case, has 420 lines of source code but, of course, some of those lines don't get executed as such since they are imports, comments, blank spaces, and class and method declarations. But everything else (aside from two small methods with @Disabled annotations got executed, probably around 300 lines total. So far so good.

However, when I look at the report, it says I executed only 4.2% of my code! Furthermore, it says it there were 1113 "covered instructions", 25,515 "missed instructions" and 26,628 "total instructions".

I'm baffled by this. Essentially, I think I want it to say that I executed 100% of my code, not just 4.2%, since all the statements it could actually execute (which I wanted executed) WERE executed. Also, I don't understand what it means by "instructions" and why there are so many compared to the number of lines actually in my class - and how I managed to miss so many!

Can someone kindly explain what the report actually MEANS? I want to make sure I cover all of my code and if these low numbers mean I've only scraped the surface, I need to know what else I need to do to test ALL of the code. If I *have* run all of the code as I think I have, how do I coax the report to acknowledge that with a nice 100% in the Coverage column?

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Re: Basic Code Coverage Question [message #1797441 is a reply to message #1797439]

Tue, 30 October 2018 23:06

Reinhardt Christiansen

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Registered: March 2010

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Sorry, everyone! After posting this question, I found out what I'd done wrong. The 4.2% did not refer to my TestCase class, it referred to the whole project, consisting of all of my actual code from that project and all the test case classes I've written so far. When I drilled down a few levels into my UnitTest folder, its package, and then my specific test case class, I found that I'd executed 96% of the code in that and 100% of the code in the 21 out of 23 methods that actually executed; if I'd executed the two disabled methods, it would have reached 100% as I expected.

I hope I haven't wasted anyone's time and apologize if I have. (I suggest we leave this post here so that anyone else making the same mistake may be able to learn from my foolishness.)

I'm still hazy on one thing though: why does the report measure instructions instead of lines of code? I'm still not clear on what an "instruction" is for this coverage tool. Are we talking about bytecode instructions in the JVM?

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Re: Basic Code Coverage Question [message #1797444 is a reply to message #1797441]

Wed, 31 October 2018 01:55

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You'll likely get a more meaningful response by posting to the forum or mailing list for your coverage tool. I'm guessing you're using EclEmma?

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