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- From: paulb@syacus.acus.oz.au (Paul Bandler)
- Subject: Value of High Code Coverage Metrics in Testing - Request for Opinion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.072812.13689@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:28:12 GMT
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- I have been tasked with the Quality Assurance of a Product Development. One of
- the metrics I have been asked to measure is the 'Branch Flow Analysis' (BFA)
- percentage achieved during unit and system testing. i.e. How much of the
- potential paths through the code is actually excersized during these
- testing phases.
-
- I believe we have a tool to measure the %BFA but of course the engineers are
- responsible for producing the test cases to excersize the code.
-
- I have 3 questions:-
-
- 1) Do people think that this is a valuable metric?
- 2) Is it a cost effective excersize to get engineers to achieve a particular
- %BFA as a completion criteria?
- 3) What is a realistic %BFA to aim for?
-
- Please email replies as well as posting as news tends to trickle down here
- rather slowly (especially with the Christmas post etc!).
-
- Thanks in anticipation,
-
- Paul Bandler
-