[Python-Dev] Code coverage tool updated

[Michael Hudson]

Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> writes:

> The Python code coverage tool available at
> http://coverage.livinglogic.de/ has been updated. (It runs the
> Python test suite once a month and makes the resulting code
> coverage info available as a web application).
>
> The backend is now Oracle instead of Postgres and is on a much
> faster machine. The frontend has been replaced too, so the result
> should be much faster and more flexible.

Using the back button in a browser seems to break it fairly badly --
if you click on a file that has some results, then click 'back' you
get a java.lang.NullPointerException!  If you click on a file
_without_ results and click 'back' you merely get a message in German
that I don't understand...

Cheers,
mwh


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