[perl #46893] [TODO] [Perl] Complete test coverage of Parrot::Test

[James Keenan via RT]

On Sat Dec 13 07:38:19 2008, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
> On Thu Nov 27 10:59:57 2008, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
> > 'testparrottest' branch has been opened in SVN to hold this work.
> 
> I have merged the 'testparrottest' branch into trunk.  See: 
> http://www.parrotvm.org/svn/parrot/revision?rev=33855
> 
> This revision does some refactoring in Parrot::Test which permits us to
> increase the extent to which this package is covered by the tests in
> t/perl/Parrot_Test.t.  Here are some comparison:
> 
> Coverage type     Before     After
> 
> Statement           53.3      79.3
> Branch              31.0      62.9
> Condition           41.5      60.0
> Subroutine          78.9      92.9
> 
> When I've performed this kind of coverage-focused refactoring on
> programs like Configure.pl and tools/build/pmc2c.pl, I've usually been
> able to push the statement coverage well into the 90%+ level.  That's
> not yet possible for Parrot::Test, because that class defines
> subroutines, or parts of subroutines, which either (a) are only used by
> the languages being built on Parrot, but not Parrot itself; (b) are
> currently underdeveloped (e.g., pirc) or known not to work and marked
> for revamping (native PBC).
> 
> Comments?
> 

Any other comments or requests re Parrot::Test?  Otherwise, I'm going to
deem it tested about as well as it can be given the constraints cited
above and therefore will close the ticket.

Thank you very much.
kid51