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Strategies for Higher Test Coverage
Read moreIn many software projects, tests are neglected at the beginning of development, and focus is put on the design and features. This is normal: the first goal should simply be to produce software which works. Priorities change when a software is released, new features are added, and maintenance becomes...
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Performance Analysis with Squish Coco
Read moreVersion 5 of Squish Coco supports the performance measurement of an application with its new, built-in Function Profiler. Like any profiling tool, this consists of providing information on the time consumed by a procedure. Here, we present how to work with Squish Coco’s profiler using an expression parser example....
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Code Coverage of Multi-Platform Applications
Read moreMany applications are now targeting several operating systems. In most cases, the code is similar for each of them and only the toolchain is different (i.e., Visual Studio for Windows, XCode for OS X, gcc for Linux, …) and the library which permits the portability of the code (i.e.,...
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Code Coverage for VxWorks Applications
Read moreVxWorks is an embedded operating system provided by Wind River and is widely used for building safety systems. The development environment is based on Eclipse and uses a GCC compiler. This article will present how to integrate Squish Coco with VxWorks. It is based on a video embedded into...
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Retrieve code coverage data via a remote debugger connection
Read moreIntroduction By default, the code coverage tool Squish Coco creates a file with the extension .csexe upon the application exit with the code coverage information of the current execution. When working on an embedded device, this is not convenient because: Some embedded OSes do not have a file system...
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What exactly is cyclomatic complexity?
Read moreThe cyclomatic complexity is a measurement of the code complexity proposed by Thomas J. McCabe which is often considered as a magic number which allows us to measure the complexity of a program. It is common to say that a function with a cyclomatic complexity higher than 10 is...
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Coco Tip: Manual testing on a remote system with Coco
Read moreIn many cases the application to test is not physically located on the tester’s desktop, which requires that the generated application data, such as code coverage information, gets transferred from the target to a host system. This can be realized in different ways: By a manual transfer through a...
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MC/DC Coverage and Short Circuit Explained
Read moreModified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC) is a code coverage metric that is referred to in many safety standards as the highest level of quality. It was first defined to provide an intermediate metric between condition and multiple-condition coverage for integrated circuits. Whereas plain condition coverage was considered too simple, the...
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Bug Location with Squish Coco 3.4
Read moreLocating a software failure can be a tenuous and a time intensive operation due to the fact of the explosion of the source code size and their test suite. Also the complexity of some software imposes an organization in which the test team is separated from the development teams....
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Locating Bugs by Comparing Coverage of Two Tests
Read moreThe typical answer to the question: Which source code line is responsible for a bug? is Use a debugger! However, it’s not always that simple. Here’s why: Without good working knowledge of the code, it can be difficult to set a breakpoint at a pertinent location, enabling you to...
