On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,

I'd like to reiterate over the importance of using @covers tags [0] for test cases rather then writing "Test for SomeClass". These tags make coverage reporting a lot more accurate, and thus make it easier to spot areas lacking tests.

Today I added a bunch of @covers tags in the DataModel component. The reported coverage dropped from 85% to 57%, quite a difference.

[0] http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/appendixes.annotations.html#appendixes.annotations.covers

Surely the test infrastructure can tell what code paths are executed without a human annotating them (and to a much finer granularity than class or method since most methods have conditional flow of control).

Tom