[LRUG] uncalled methods analysis when running test suite

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

On 16 February 2010 23:53, Mr Jaba <the.jaba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Either that or you can roll your own pretty easily with
> Kernel#set_trace_func  which will be much more customisable to your needs.
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html
> But with any of those solutions the danger is that your test suit misses
> something vital that your app is still using. So much caution required.
>

also,
the opposite is true,

just because a line of code is hit
doesn't mean its used in your system
maybe it is your test that is redundant


> On 16 February 2010 15:27, Anthony Green <Anthony.Green at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Or go all out with metric_fu
>>
>> > rcov
>> >
>> > On 16 February 2010 23:20, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hey all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm working on a fairly complex app, but one with a lot of code that
>> could
>> >> potentially have been deprecated ages ago, and never removed. I was
>> just
>> >> wondering if there was some sort of source-code analysis tool that
>> would run
>> >> my specs and features, and then report on which areas of the codebase
>> where
>> >> never called as part of the test suite, giving me some idea of areas of
>> the
>> >> app that can be pruned back. Anyone have any idea whether such a thing
>> >> exists?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Tim
>> >>
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