recent meetings
03/03/10: "Boost Your Hibernate and Application Performance" by Greg Luck
01/26/10: "Scaling the Cloud" by Kirk Spadt
12/02/09: "Character Sets, Encodings, Java and Other Headaches" by Brian Clapper
11/04/09: "Protecting Java Code" by Mike Dulaney
10/14/09: "Are You Covered" by Keith Gregory
"Are You Covered" by Keith Gregory
Sponsored by the British Computer Society
Hosted by Penn State Great Valley
SPEAKER BIO
Keith Gregory has been a professional software developer since 1984, working in fields ranging from data warehousing to real-time data acquisition. He has focused on Java and the J2EE stack since 1999. Along the way he authored one book and co-authored another, and has presented at the Philly JUG. His website is http://www.kdgregory.com/, where you can find the article on which this presentation is based.
ABSTRACT
As unit testing has grown in popularity, coverage metrics have become a primary tool for ensuring the validity of those tests. However, while coverage metrics are a useful tool, they have significant limitations.
This presentation takes a closer look at two popular open-source coverage tools, Emma and Cobertura. We examine how these tools work, how they can be integrated into your build process, and what they can tell you. More important, we discuss where they fall short, and how you can work around their limitations.
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