h tcrelzvpgmailcom howdy folks hope topic sadly current syssettrace allows tracing line level isnt sufficient branch path coverage main problem many boolean operations appear single line cant sure conditional branch taken using current tracing method speaking code complexitytesting pycon 0 people seeing people made strides shown interested metricscode graphsflow branch coverage think interest one proposed method getting branch coverage use dalkes python4ply 1 translate code branches occur line using line coverage converting back branch coverage original code maintainer coveragepy suggested look patching python instead trace granular level feeling would many corner cases translation would get hairy quite quickly sadly 8 years python experience ive yet touch c based guts python im looking advice get finer grain tracing syssettrace advice suggestions quorum people least 5 others would interested functionality could lead cool tools built top end goal python code cleaner simpler better tested thanks much matt harrison 0 httppanelablogcitycompycon_2008_managing_complexity_slideshtm 1 httpwwwdalkescientificcompythonpython4plyhtml _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 223532 0600 pythondev tracing granular level branch coverage