[Insight-developers] Code coverage

[Andinet Enquobahrie]

Folks,

I will be starting soon the humongous and ambitious task of increasing 
the code coverage in ITK. I will try to accomplish this in two phases. 
In the first phase, I will concentrate on writing test programs for 
codes  with no test program. Secondly, I will reinforce the test 
programs of the codes with very low coverage. The code coverage output 
of "Esopus.crd" shows that  there are now more than 150 files untested 
including  both *.h and *.txx 
files!!(http://www.itk.org/Testing/Sites/esopus.crd/SunOS-5.7-c++/20050918-0100-Nightly/CoverageByUntested.html)

I will  tackle the ones in BasicFilters and Algoirhtm followed by the 
ones in the other directories. From my initial investigation, "untested" 
codes could be categorized into

1) Half-implemented codes (probably  the author gave up on it. Some of 
them even have compilation errors..)
2) Fully implemented code which no test programs

I noticed that some of the fully implemented codes with no test programs 
have been used in InsightApplications.  It is very likely that the 
author of the code used the application as a test program. In fact, now 
I think about it would be great if we have a cross 
Insight-and-InsighApplications code testing mechanism.

Anyways, this is just to give you a heads up and I will be contacting 
directly the authors of some of the codes I might have difficulty 
figuring out especially the ones half-implemented.

Thanks.

-Andinet