Hi all,
I'm looking for a good study/quantitative measure of how well-written Go
code looks compared to other languages, such as Java, when it comes to test
coverage. In particular, how handling errors may reduce the percentage of
code covered by tests in Go relative to other languages.
For example, in this code snippet:
func Foo() error {
// do some stuff that actually adds value
if err := somelib.Bar(); err != nil {
// triggering the error case in Bar is hard, i.e. requires simulating
network troubles
// or causing a file write to fail, but we don't do anything with
result besides
// return it. Testing it by adding an interface or wrapper isn't worth
the effort
// and the only impact is really reported test coverage.
return err
}
// do more stuff
return nil
}
In Java, you would just add 'throws SomeException' to your method
declaration. The effect is that we have one line in the Go code which is
not easily covered by a test, whereas Java does not report that untested
case because the return path is not visible in the code.
The result is that otherwise equivalent code, we will report different code
coverage values, with Go being slightly lower. I'm just looking for
something written on that topic that can give us a notion of how much of a
difference we might expect.
Thanks,
Charles
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