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Assessment on Various Code Coverage Tools

Author(s):

S. Alaudeen Basha, NARASU’S SARATHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; R. Sivaguru ,NARASU’S SARATHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; G. V. Kanimozhi ,NARASU’S SARATHY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Keywords

Software Testing, Code Coverage, Code Coverage Tools, Code Coverage Criteria

Abstract

Software Testing one of the challenging tasks is to select the test inputs. Code coverage techniques are used to express the amount to which the code of a program is tested. Many coverage tools are available in working environment. Here we have studied seven code coverage tools and out of which one tool was actually evaluated for their proposed features. A comparative study is presented on the basis of the set criteria.

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Paper ID: GRDJEV04I100011
Published in: Volume : 4, Issue : 10
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Page(s): 21 - 24

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