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On 4/25/12 9:08 PM, James E Keenan wrote:
> Friends,
>
>
> Can anyone advise as to why I am getting coverage analysis of Util.xs
> but not of lib/Hash/Util.pm?
>
Locking %ENV frustrates Devel::Cover.
Starting at approximately line 172 of t/Util.t, we have a test which,
after I've reformatted a few lines, looks like this:
lock_keys(%ENV);
eval { () = $ENV{I_DONT_EXIST} };
like(
$@,
qr/^Attempt to access disallowed key 'I_DONT_EXIST' in a restricted
hash/,
'locked %ENV'
);
I commented out all the tests in Util.t, then worked my way through
un-commenting them and making sure that all tests still passed. Until I
got to the test above, I got favorable results calling:
prove -vb t/Util.t
cover -delete; harness; cover -summary
... where 'harness' simply calls:
HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover make test
... and "favorable results" means something like this:
---------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
File stmt bran cond sub pod time total
---------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
Util.xs 88.2 58.3 n/a n/a n/a n/a 70.7
blib/lib/Hash/Util.pm 82.9 59.1 11.1 87.5 92.0 100.0 78.8
Total 83.6 58.7 11.1 87.5 92.0 100.0 77.4
---------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
But when I extended the uncommented lines to include the 'like' after
lock_keys(%ENV), 'prove' still PASSed all tests but the line for
'blib/lib/Hash/Util.pm' vanished.
When I kept the lock_keys lines commented out, but uncommented the
balance of the file, both prove and cover DWIMmed.
Hence, these few lines were the cause of the problem. So now this
becomes an obscure bug in Devel::Cover: Why does lock_keys(%ENV) cause
reporting on a package to vanish -- but not affect the reporting on the
XS file?
I'll leave that for others (read: pjcj) to ponder. In the meantime, I
hope to add tests to shore up the surprisingly poor coverage of
Hash::Util by its test file.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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