STARCANADA 2017 - Test Coverage
Wednesday, October 18
Are Your Tests Well-Traveled? Thoughts on Test Coverage
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
There are many places to visit it the world and it can be interesting to see “where you’ve been”. There are many places in software for tests to visit, and seeing “where the tests have been” can be very interesting for testers. Dot Graham explains what coverage is, and why it can be misleading to talk about 100% coverage. Coverage is a relationship between the tests and the software being tested, and is an objective measurement of some aspect of thoroughness of the testing. Dot will discuss the ways in which the term coverage is mis-used, and the four caveats of coverage which every tester...