Devel::Cover recommendations... or maybe not?

Luis Motta Campos luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 14 16:18:31 GMT 2007


On Mar 14, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2007, at 16:18, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
>>  Dear Londoners, I need to recommend some tools for QA at $company.
>>
>>   Maybe some of you can tell me good (or bad) impressions about  
>> Devel::Cover.
>>
>>   The POD scares everybody, stating clearly "this is alfa code".  
>> It's almost like saying "go away" what is pretty strange for an  
>> open-source module...
>>
>>   Comments, anybody?
>
> Used heavily at $company-1 to generate pretty tables of coverage.
>
> What you *do* with the info is another story...

   What is adviseable to *do* with this info?
   Is there any problem in using this info as a guideline for  
programmer time investment on testing improvements?

   Thanks for the answers, btw.
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Luis Motta Campos (a.k.a. Monsieur Champs) is a software engineer,
Perl fanatic evangelist, and amateur {cook, photographer}





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