Every once in a while the topic of code coverage surfaces, which invariably leads to a number of interesting views and comments. Recently, my friend Meera Subbarao mused about the subject by ...

NCover Inc. is releasing version 3.0 this week of its flagship code coverage analysis tooling for .NET. Targeted at automated build and test environments, the upgrade improves performance, profiling ...

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While I love RSS for aggregating feeds from various blogs, nothing beats having an expert combing through articles and posts, culling the best ones. Few people, if any, do that culling better for ...

Coverage has become a key technology in the pursuit of efficient and accurate verification of large designs. Obviously, simulation is still the cornerstone of verification, but the time when a single ...

Improve your Python testing even more. In my last two articles, I introduced pytest, a library for testing Python code (see "Testing Your Code with Python's pytest" Part I and Part II). pytest has ...

Reliable programs need to be tested and checked before problems occur. Static and dynamic analysis should be in every embedded developer's toolbox. Many developers employ code coverage tools but ...

Today’s complexity of embedded systems is steadily increasing. The growing number of components in a system and the increased communication and synchronization of all components requires reliable ...

When asked, many engineers will say that the goal of a test plan for a PCB is full or 100% test coverage. When pressed further, they usually admit that 100% test coverage is virtually impossible to ...