path coverage testing

testing Testing a program by examining which lines of

executable code are visited (as in code coverage testing)

and also the ways of getting to each line of code and the

subsequent sequence of execution.

Path coverage testing is the most comprehensive type of

testing that a test suite can provide. It can find more

bugs in a program, especially those that are caused by datacoupling. However, path coverage is a testing level that is

very hard to achieve, and usually only small and/or critical

sections of code are checked in this way.

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(2001-04-21)