Limited Coverage

Herkum has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a custom package that I am developing and I am running Build testcover to generate a Coverage report. I want to limit it to only the Modules that are a part of my package that I am bundling, but the coverage report covers all the modules that I am using as well.

What do I have to do in order to limit coverage to Modules in my package?

Comment on Limited Coverage

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Re: Limited Coverage by molecules (Monk) on Jan 21, 2010 at 20:02 UTC
`./Build testcover` uses Devel::Cover, so check out the options, including specifics for including/excluding files based on regexes. Hope this helps.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Limited Coverage by Herkum (Parson) on Jan 21, 2010 at 20:37 UTC
Tried it, and the options I tried did not so I think I am missing something fundamental about how the options are supposed to work. Something that irks me about the whole situation, if you are integrating this into a package build, I would assume the default would be configured to check you package bundle, not everything.	[reply]
Re^3: Limited Coverage by molecules (Monk) on Jan 21, 2010 at 21:57 UTC
Perhaps try invoking Devel::Cover a different way. I use the following commands and I've never seen it test anything outside of the directory in which I was working. `cover -delete HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover perl ./Build test cover` [download] Actually, what I really do is use a bash script: `#!/bin/bash if [ -f Build.PL ]; then makecommand="perl ./Build" elif [ -f Makefile.PL ]; then makecommand=make else echo Cannot generate coverage information from this directory! exit 1 fi cover -delete; HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover $makecommand test; + cover` [download] I wish I could help more, but I'm currently at the limit of my experience on this issue. Good luck.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Limited Coverage by Herkum (Parson) on Jan 21, 2010 at 22:23 UTC
Re^5: Limited Coverage by molecules (Monk) on Jan 21, 2010 at 23:38 UTC


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