Re: [Cobertura-devel] Where is a doc that explains details of the cobertura report?

[KARR, D. <dk...@at...>]

Ah, very good.  That's also helpful.

From: Steve Christou [mailto:sch...@gm...]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 2:16 PM
To: KARR, DAVID
Cc: Daniel Zapata; cob...@li...
Subject: Re: [Cobertura-devel] Where is a doc that explains details of the cobertura report?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cobertura/

Look at the paragraph above Figure 3.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM, KARR, DAVID <dk...@at...<mailto:dk...@at...>> wrote:
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> From: Daniel Zapata [mailto:dz...@gm...<mailto:dz...@gm...>]
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> Subject: Re: [Cobertura-devel] Where is a doc that explains details of
> the cobertura report?
>
> I have not found such a doc, but I did spend some time studying them.
> Anyone else, please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Basically, any line with a color is eligible for coverage.  That
> second column tells you how many times a line was executed.  A line is
> completely green (all columns, from the line number to the code) if
> that line is fully covered.  This means all the conditions of that
> line have been executed (like an if condition).  If the line number is
> green but the execution count+code is red, that line has not been
> fully executed.
>
> When I look at the class coverage report, I look for zeroes in the
> second column to see where I should focus my coverage.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Danny
Yup, that helps.  It seemed pretty likely that's what the value indicated, but as I found nothing anywhere that stated this, I wanted to confirm that.  I suppose I could dig into the source code, but you would think someone would have written this down somewhere.

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:01 PM, KARR, DAVID <dk...@at...<mailto:dk...@at...>> wrote:
> > I've seen several pages that show how to generate the cobertura
> coverage report, but it seems hard to find something that specifies
> exactly what it generates and what all of the values mean.
> >
> > The vast majority of it is pretty obvious, but there's one thing that
> is not completely obvious.  When viewing the coverage within each file,
> the first column shows line numbers.  The second column is either blank
> or a number.  I'm guessing this number is something like an occurrence
> count, but there aren't any labels on the display, and I can't find any
> documentation that says exactly what this value represents.
> >
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