The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition

Code Coverage

Code coverage tools allow us to discover which specific lines of code in the system were executed during a test. When you are starting to add tests to a legacy application, it can be really useful to know your code coverage:

• If you know that a line of code isn’t covered by your tests yet, you can see more clearly what kind of a characterization test you need to write.

• If you know that a line of code is covered by your tests, you can be more confident in refactoring or changing it.

There is no built-in support in Cucumber for collecting code coverage statistics. Instead, you need to install the SimpleCov^[56] gem and add a couple of lines to your env.rb:

require 'simplecov'
SimpleCov.start

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