On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Andrea,
>
> are these rules based on coverage fraction or absolute lines covered? Is
> coverage relative to cyclomatic complexity?
>

I think it's relative to the count of executable lines of code (e.g.,
excluding whitespace, comments, method and class declarations),
but I could be wrong.


>
> -0 for rules that we never reduce code coverage. I can think of several
> cases where it is quite acceptable to reduce coverage fraction, such as
> fixing a leak by adding extra lines in a hard-to-cover catch block, or
> disabling a failing test class or method to fix the build and preserve the
> rest of the coverage. Given infinite time we can always add more tests ...
>
> It might be quite useful to have a coverage change report for every pull
> request. There is no harm trying Coverall to see what it looks like. I am
> only against the rule that we never allow coverage to be reduced. It might
> be good to know if a module's coverage falls below 40%.
>

I am not sure we get that number at the pull request level, as far as I can
see the pull
request check only reports the overall coverage. Here is an example from a
random OL pull request:

[image: Inline image 1]

The downside of not adding the check is that nobody will probably check the
before/after code coverage value
if it's not in your there, in your face.

If we don't at least expose this check, maybe by not enforcing it, I have
no interest in spending time hooking
up coveralls, as nobody will go to the coveralls home page to check our
coverage values, if they have
to remember to do it.

Just as a note, the 40% mark might be something we are still not reaching
on modules that were
already there when we added the minimum test coverage check for graduation.
Also, there is nothing stopping a graduated module from going below that
threshold, as we also have
no check (the rule of "at least one test in a commit fights a bit that kind
of degradation, but provides
no assurance)


>
> In my view, coverage metrics fall into the same category as formatting
> convention compliance and lack of compiler warnings: good to have but often
> a pain in the arse when enforced by automated tools.
>

See above, we might not enforce it, but if it's not in people's face, it's
not worth wasting
time on

Cheers
Andrea

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