This was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks !

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net>wrote:

> Krist van Besien wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Guruprasad JG <guruprasad...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I am referring to the Apache code written in C. I would like to see if
> all
> >> the paths are exercised for - request processing, resource management,
> >> connection pooling, and configuration directives of the apache core.
> This
> >> would be more like functional testing of apache.
> >
> > I think you'll have to explain to us what you exactly mean with
> > checking that "all the paths are exercised". I have no clue how to
> > "exercise paths" in any context, and I do consider my knowledge of the
> > English language quite substantial. Maybe you should rephrase your
> > question.
> > If you just want to know what goes on inside Apache when a request is
> > processed than you can ofcourse run it in a debugger. Will be slow,
> > though. Make sure the timeout in whatever client you use is high
> > enough.
>
> This is a common phrase in software engineering.  The only solution to
> achieve code coverage is to instrument httpd with a code coverage tool,
> and test it.
>
> See the http://httpd.apache.org/test/ page and the repository at
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/test/framework/trunk/ for the test
> framework of httpd.  Patches to increase code coverage would be welcome.
>
> You will not achieve 100% on a single box, due to the platform differences
> in the code paths.
>
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