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[David Bolen]

roy at panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

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> We've got code coveage tools.  This is a testing tool.  You keep
> running tests and it keeps track of which lines of code are executed
> (i.e. which logic branches are taken).  One theory of testing says you
> should keep writing test cases until you've exercised every branch.  I
> don't see any reason such a tool wouldn't be useful in a big Python
> project, but I'm not aware of any.

The coverage.py module (http://www.garethrees.org/2001/12/04/python-coverage)
has worked pretty well for us.  Just run your unit test suite under its
control.

There's also http://www.softwareverify.com/pythonCoverageValidator
which is commercial.

-- David