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RCov: The difference between "code coverage" and "total coverage"

Henning Koch
December 20, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Code coverage is the ratio of code lines kissed by a test vs. the total number of lines in your source files. This sounds meaningful, but isn't.

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Total coverage additionally ignores whitespace and comments when computing the coverage ratio, which is what you want.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-12-20 11:54)