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- From: neveu@tintin (Jean-Sebastien Neveu)
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- Subject: Re: Test coverage
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.173547.19955@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:35:47 GMT
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- R.T. Herbst (herbst@seq.uncwil.edu) wrote:
- :
- : There are two facilities in UNIX V rel 4 that will help in
- : evaluating a test. Ctrace and lprof.
- : Ctrace will trace a program giving lvalues for each statement
- : executed.
- :
- : Lprof will display the frequency of execution
- : of statements or the statements executed.
- :
- : I find both ctrace and lprof useful in debugging and in
- : determining the coverage of a test.
- : herbst@seq.uncwil.edu
- :
-
- There is also "tcov" which can be use in conjunction with the "-a" option
- of the C compiler.
-
- I find all these built-in tools very limited. There are plenty of other tools
- useful in determining test coverage. Datrix and GCT are only two of them.
-
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