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Guru: RDi Code Coverage Without SEPs

August 12, 2019 Susan Gantner

My last Guru tip provided an introduction to RDi’s Code Coverage tool that you can use to determine how complete your tests are. In that tip I discussed how to run it using Service Entry Points (SEPs). In this follow-on tip, I’ll continue the exploration of this tool with some additional details plus introduce you to an alternative way to run a Code Coverage session.

Before going into the alternative approach to running Code Coverage, there are a few details I didn’t mention in the first tip.

I mentioned that Code Coverage uses the debug engine. What I didn’t mention …
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Guru: How Thorough Was Your Last Test? RDi Code Coverage Can Tell You

July 22, 2019 Susan Gantner

When you’ve made changes to one or more programs, you test all the changes – right? And, of course, you also test all the rest of the code just to make sure you didn’t break anything else. Did you do that with your last set of changes? Did you test ALL the code? Enabling you to answer that last question is what RDi’s Code Coverage facility is all about.

This is an introduction to Code Coverage — the basics of both why and how to use it. Before I go into how to run it, it may pique your interest …
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