Re: proposed community service: make coverage

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
To: "'Alvaro Herrera'" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'Pg Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposed community service: make coverage
Date: 2012-10-25 06:07:21
Message-ID: 009701cdb276$ff6226c0$fe267440$@kapila@huawei.com
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On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:37 AM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During the course of some discussion, I proposed the possibility of us
> exposing a continuously updated copy of the "make coverage" target,
> after running some standard test suite (possibly some of the
> "check-world" targets). This would give everyone some visibility into
> the code that's being regularly exercised by our test suite.

I think apart from above, it can also provide information about coverage
of new code getting added w.r.t testcases(existing/new).

> Right now we have the support, but I haven't heard of anyone actually
> looking at the results, much less doing anything about them.
>
> Does this sound interesting/useful to hackers?

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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