Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!amdahl!pacbell!hoptoad!hsfmsh!mhyman
From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Code coverage analysis tools and C++
Summary: Check out a profiler
Keywords: lock, keyhole, bolt, door, ring, teeth, tumblers
Message-ID: <576@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 22:32:50 GMT
References: <352@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: SoftCom, Inc. San Francisco
Lines: 21

In article <352@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> dspoon@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (dspoon) writes:
> We are interested in finding a code coverage analysis tool to perform
> code coverage analysis on our C++ code, which will be compiled using
> Zortech's C++ Compiler.  Thus the tool must work under MS-DOS.

Look at a DOS profiler called Inside! (I think that's the name) by a company
called Paradigm Systems.  I think they are located someplace back east.  I
haven't used this product but saw it demo-ed at a show and was impressed.
The profiler reads the map file and can output line numbers visited or not
visited.  The output isn't fancy (ascii text scrolling off the screen) but
use of the ``lines not visited'' option could be massaged into a test
coverage report easily.

Since it uses the link map I believe it will work with any compiler that
either uses the DOS linker or has the same output.

--marc
-- 
//Marco S. Hyman
//UUCP:   ...!sun!sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman
//Domain: sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com