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I just removed some dead code earlier today that the code coverage spotted. It was along the lines of the following:

sub foo {
  # bunch of code
  if ( $some_condition ) {
    # do a bunch of stuff
    return $something;
  }
  else {
    # do some other stuff
    croak($error);
  }
  # do some more stuff
}

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That can be easy to miss in refactoring.

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re^4: When 100% Code Coverage Backfires
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Mar 26, 2007 at 15:33 UTC
    I just removed some dead code earlier today that the code coverage spotted.

    Ah the joys of legacy code :-)

    I've found code coverage to be a great exploratory tool. Want to know how your application does something - just write an end-to-end test and look at the test coverage. Much easier way of getting an overview than messing around the debugger.

    Informative too ("look - that critical bit of code doesn't touch the logging module. Ooops.")

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