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Availabilty of code coverage and quality tool for shell script?

Plaban Kumar Rout — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:56:34 GMT

Is there any tools available in market for code coverage and code qyuality for the shell script?

Re: Availabilty of code coverage and quality tool for shell script?

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:51:57 GMT

Shalom,

Shell scripting is so wide open, I know of no tools that will check a shell script other than the shell itself. The sell has diagnostics, set -x and such to let you check a script as it runs.

SEP

Re: Availabilty of code coverage and quality tool for shell script?

Mark Menkhus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:46:27 GMT

Hi,

Thinking more broadly, and not just suggesting an HP supplied tool:

I just noticed the open source shcov is availble on freshmeat. It portends to demonstrate coverage, or portions of the shell script code which is executed with a given set of input aruments. Homepage:
http://shcov.googlecode.com

Build security in, then use tools to check how this is going.

Cheers,
Mark Menkhus

Re: Availabilty of code coverage and quality tool for shell script?

Dennis Handly — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:58:26 GMT

>Mark: Thinking more broadly,

Or write them in perl and see if perl has such a tool.