An Evaluation of Java Code Coverage Testing Tools

Code coverage metric is considered as the most important metric used in analysis of software projects for testing. Code coverage analysis also helps in the testing process by finding areas of a program not exercised by a set of test cases, creating additional test cases to increase coverage, and determine the quantitative measure of the code, which is an indirect measure of quality. There are a large number of automated tools to find the coverage of test cases in Java. Choosing an appropriate tool for the application to be tested may be a complicated process. To make it ease we propose an approach for measuring characteristics of these testing tools in order to evaluate them systematically and to select the appropriate one.