From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T12:35:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::unit assertion pass scenario


On Dec 30, 2009, at 17:47 , Phillip Gawlowski wrote:

> If you are looking for a way to see what code gets exercised (and if all code gets tested), RCov (used to be) a good solution (alas, it hasn't been updated since 2007) to test for code coverage, too.

not true:

> rcov (0.9.7.1)
>     Platform: ruby, java
>     Authors: Relevance, Chad Humphries (spicycode), Aaron Bedra
>     (abedra), Jay McGaffigan, Mauricio Fernandez
>     Homepage: http://github.com/relevance/rcov
> 
>     Code coverage analysis tool for Ruby

see http://gemcutter.org/gems/rcov

> Versions
> 	• 0.9.7.1 December 29, 2009
> 	• 0.9.7.1 December 29, 2009 java
> 	• 0.9.7 December 27, 2009
> 	• 0.9.7 December 27, 2009 java
> 	• 0.9.6 May 12, 2009


But I feel I should point out: rcov doesn't tell you that your tests are any good... it is only good for "what code gets exercised" but not "[all] code gets tested".