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I can't "prove" my code, but I can prove that my test executes every function, every line and takes every branch and every return. I run my test using valgrind (callgrind with a few options), then I wrote a valgrind parser and combined that with a c++ parser and output the results. Some fun tidbits:

Every time I discovered that a bit of code can never be executed.

The amount of functions that I never even call, even when I am using my test generator (built on top of the same c++ parser)

I enjoy coding. If I spent 1 hour coding a test that finds nearly all of the bugs in a class that means later I wont spent a week deciphering reports and fixing bugs that are annoying users. I get to hack more and my users get more stable code.

If you want to try out my code, http://arora-browser.org/

The c++ parser I used http://github.com/icefox/rpp/tree

My evil little test generator http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2007/11/auto-test-stub-ge...

My valgrind tools http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2007/12/valgrind-callgrin...



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