Re: Play 20K expressions again, Sam

[visicom!amstel!rlk@nosc.mil (Bob Kitzberger)]

lonjers@prc.unisys.com (Jim Lonjers) writes:

>While this is undoubtably true, we must really be careful about how much a
>compiler vendor believes in this as a testing method.  In a prior life, I
>was responsible for the Unisys ALGOL compiler which was written in Unisys
>ALGOL.  We implemented coverage analysis, which marked which lines in a
>program are covered in an execution.  After compiling the compiler with the
>compiler, we ended up with on 20% of the compiler covered.

There is usually much more to a modern Ada development environment than
the compiler itself, and there are often interactive components,
real-time components, GUI components, etc.  The more of this that is written
in Ada, the better the code coverage.

	.Bob.
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