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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:57:04 -0400
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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> About AUnit: just seen about what it is, how it is set up and how it
> works. Seems a question is still pending : “how to be sure the test
> cover  all relevant case ?”. I do not see a way to be sure testing
> cover all  cases. 

Correct, AUnit does not do that. gcov does, although I have not used it
very much. It can be difficult to use the output of gcov.

> That is the main limitation of this kind of approach. 

What alternative approaches provide coverage information?

> May be this is nice for regression tests and tests cases revealed
> during application's life time... however, I don't believe this can be
> used too much soon in a development stage. 

I use it all the time for development. I write the AUnit test and spec
first, then the body.

The test documents how the package is intended to be used, and helps
focus the development process.

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