[vtk-developers] VTK coverage data... Calling for test writing volunteers!!

[Brad King]

David Cole wrote:
> Looking at the nightly VTK coverage status page (found here:
> http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/dash6.kitware/Linux-g++-static/20070416-0300-Nightly/CoverageByStatus.html)
> 
> we appear to be relatively stable at out coverage level in the
> low-60-%'s for quite some time...
> 
> Can I solicit any volunteers to take a look at the coverage table and
> submit some new tests for VTK that will help us to improve our test
> coverage numbers?
> 
> If you sum the files with low (243) or dangerously low (263) coverage,
> we have over 500 source files in VTK that could use some additional
> testing... Sorting by directory/file name, the low files appear to be
> in many different sub-systems of VTK.

We should remove most of the Utilities/* directories from the coverage
check.  KWSys is tested by CMake testing.  The 3rd-party libraries are
probably not fully used by VTK.

-Brad