Re: coreutils test coverage

[Jim Meyering]

Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> If you're reading this list, you probably noticed that some kind
>> souls at Stanford uncovered a surprising number of bugs in coreutils
>> recently.  Part of their analysis was coverage-related, and they
>> produced these coverage reports:
>>
>>     http://keeda.stanford.edu/~cristic/coreutils-dev-tests/src/
>>
>> In case anyone is interested in improving test coverage,
>> that gives some obvious starting points.
>
> How cool!
>
> That's a really useful tool.  I wonder if it might be possible to
> include some instructions for producing a coverage report like that in
> the project somewhere... maybe in the HACKING file?

I've only just learned of this, too:

    http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php

I was just waiting for you to volunteer ;-)