A Comprehensive Study on Code Coverage Analysis for effective Test Development/Enhancement Methodology

Abstract

The paper describes a tool developed by a team of testing practitioners dealing with a large collection of test suites used for testing Teradata which is large relational database system software. This team has studied the existing database software, available test suites, collected the code coverage data for a large number of available test suites for Teradata and developed an effective Web based Code coverage analysis tool to analyze these Code coverage performance of these test suite while running on Teradata to be able to understand code coverage of these test suites data in various possible dimensions. This activity was undertaken as part of a test engineering initiative to bring in place a set of innovative test engineering practices as potential business value adds.