[Pdx-pm] Perl coverage measurement tools ?

chromatic chromatic at wgz.org
Thu Sep 5 11:26:55 CDT 2002


On Thursday 05 September 2002 07:39, charles radley wrote:

> Does anyone know of any coverage tools for Perl ?   Something like Rational
> Purecoverage, for example, which can do coverage at statement level for
> Java and C++, but not for perl.
>
> I really like perl, but IMHO its major limitation is that there is no
> coverage or profiling tool.   Except that In an old Camel book it mentions
> something called  "Dprof" / dprofpp / Devel::Dprof

Devel::Coverage, I believe.  I've seen some pretty graphs showing statement 
test coverage for 5.7.2, but it takes just about forever to run.

On the other hand, you did mention a Rational tool.  You're used to forever.

hehe,
-- c



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