[comp.software-eng] Looking for Coverage utilities

gregho@buckskin.LABS.TEK.COM (Greg Hoffman ) (05/08/91)

I'm looking for recommendations on coverage utilities or other analysis
tools used in later evaluation phases (unit testing, integration testing,
system testing).  We're using tcov for statement coverage.  I'm interesting
in learning about utilities for other forms of coverage or other
types of analysis.

I checked my archives of previous postings in this area on this group.  I 
found some stuff on public domain metric packages (Halstead and MaCabe) and 
the bibliographies of CASE tools, so I have some pointers. However, I'm a new 
reader, so I could have easily missed an earlier posting.

At the moment, I reluctant to embrace one of the big CASE systems with the
associated expense and training.  Instead, I'm wondering if there are
smaller, lower cost utilities which provide benifits without the large
initial investment.  

In reviewing these older posting, there seemed to be several pointers to
front-end tools (requirements capture, design specification, etc.), but
fewer to back-end tools.  Hence this posting!

We working in C++ now, so pointers to utilities for this language would be
most helpful.  Suggestions for utilities which work on C code would be fine.
Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks,

Greg
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