--On Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:10 PM -0700 Tim Shadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This could eliminate the complexity of actually creating an efficient
coverage tool AND a customized metric, and open the door to a host of
other "heuristic metrics". Essentially, most people stop trying to
get 100% coverage from normal tools, and any number after that's just
fuzzy -- there's no hard line for quality. The XC concept is that
this "heuristic metric" is "close enough" to warrant a hard quality
push (like XP's unit test green bar). If one sensor that essentially
applies heuristics to raw data, but gets better behavior results or
long term adoption; perhaps other "heuristic metrics" could be
designed to generate telemetry streams that sit above the raw data and
provide a more realistic Red/Green goal.
This is an _excellent_ insight, Tim!
Basically, we can get out of the coverage tool business (i.e. allow the Emma folks to do
that part), and provide (for example) a reduction function that computes Extreme Coverage
(XC). The best of both worlds.
I'm still going to port JBlanket to Version 7 for old time's sake, but it's really
looking like Emma Is The Future. :-)
Cheers,
Philip
