RE: [Cobertura-devel] Re: Ignoring empty private constructors

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From another lazy b... :p (there is no reason you are gonna be the only one)
What stops a developper to add //NOCOBERTURA around pieces of code tricky to test ... ?
I foresee in the very next future to vizually review the code and add @TODO style comments with
requests for refactoring. I would only do that with a copy in an Excel-sheet to copy / paste the
information provided to the developper and exact location

but I therefore would never dare to open a such box... like adding simply a //NOCOBERTURA 

The usage of an aspect to open the private constructor could be a simple option if this case
appears many times :)

\T,






--- Mark Doliner <Mar...@sa...> wrote:

> I guess I'll try to summarize?
> 
> This is a tough problem to solve.  It does not seem like there is a way to heuristically
> determine if a class' constructor should be considered a source-line-of-code.  There's just no
> way to know if the developer intends for the constructor to be called.
> 
> So it looks like we have three options
> 
> a) Use normal source comments (//NOCOBERTURA) to flag lines that should not be counted.  This
> would mean that cobertura-instrument would need to be aware of your source code.  And we would
> have to change instrumenting to parse through the source and look for //NOCOBERTURA, which would
> slow things down a little bit.  It also makes your source code a bit less neat.
> 
> b) Use Java 1.5 annotations to flag things that should not be counted.  Only people using Java
> 1.5 would be able to take advantage of this.  And it would also mean you'd have annotations for
> Cobertura sitting around in your compiled classes.
> 
> c) Do absolutely nothing.  Having some uncovered constructors sitting around your classes isn't
> the worst thing in the world.
> 
> I vote for c.  Mostly because I'm lazy :-)  It also keeps Cobertura from getting too complicated
> (although, from a user standpoint options a and b are pretty simple).
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 


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