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

Adrian Howard adrianh at quietstars.com
Wed Mar 14 18:29:26 GMT 2007


On 14 Mar 2007, at 16:41, Igor Sutton Lopes wrote:

>
> On 2007/03/14, at 16:18, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
>
>>   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?
>
> Basically, Devel::Cover gives you a bunch of information of what  
> pieces of code your tests are not covering. So, the goal of using  
> it is using that information to improve tests. :-)

<niggle>The goal is to improve the code</niggle>

I've seen to many people go off in a misguided attempt to make test  
coverage 100% everywhere. Sometimes there are more important things  
to be doing :-)

Adrian


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