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What happens if I don do any WhiteBox coverage testing?

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What happens if I don do any WhiteBox coverage testing?

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Sadly, without a really good metric to tell you what you have done and haven’t done, you’ll probably be badly undertested. You may want to watch out! For example, even the best functional testers generally only hit about 30%-50% of the structure of the application they’re testing. So, without coverage analysis it may be that upwards of 70% of your application has never been exercised at all when your product goes into field service. • What is a segment? What is a [logical] branch? A segment, sometimes called a [logical] branch, is a piece of code that is always executed as a unit after some piece of program logic happens. For example, an “IF” statement has two segments, the “true” and the “false” outcomes. Programs always have at least one segment (the “entry segment), but they may have hundreds and hundreds. Normal-sized programs have 1-50 segments; if the program is much bigger than 50 segments programmers tend to break the program down into smaller pieces. • Why not just use “statem

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