SystemTAP translator test coverage

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Dec 22 23:56:00 GMT 2005


wcohen wrote:

> [...]
> http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/stap_coverage/src/index.html

Thanks for posting the pretty pictures!

> There are sections of buildrun.cxx that are not run because the
> output of the translator was not actually compiled as a module or
> installed in the kernel. The translator tests do not exercise the
> tapsets.cxx code either.

That's odd - the transok/buildok tests should exercise the tapsets.cxx
code.

> Looking at parse.cxx and translate.cxx there are a number of cases
> where there are untested error messages [...]

I guess the small step is for some volunteers to modify (or write new)
test cases that force those error cases.  The next bigger step is to
do the same for the other significant chunks of untested code.

- FChE



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