Does anybody bother you about increasing the testing coverage of your Python project? Are you tired of writing useless tests just to increase that metric? Then magicov is for you!
This tool will automatically modify your code so you'll get 100% testing coverage instantly. How? Just remove all uncovered lines of your project!
This approach will make you have less code to maintain, since most of it (at least if you have low coverage) will be removed.
Install the tool with pip:
pip install magicov
Then run the Python coverage tool to fetch the coverage of your project:
coverage run '--include=your_project/*' command_to_run_tests.py
Make a backup of your code, and run magicov passing it the file with the coverage data:
magicov .coverage
You will see a lot of Python files are modified, but your test suite should pass anyway. And if everything is ok, you will have 100% coverage! You're ready to push your code to your master branch and make your boss (or testing-obsesive coworker) satisfied because of a useless metric!
My !!Con West talk explains how to use Magicov and how it was designed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnlI3UpH-w
This is a joke project. It has no practical purpose at all. If you run this tool, all untested features of your product will be unusable.
This was just my constructive way of saying that testing coverage is not a useful metric in software projects. At least, not as important as other, more related to the product ones.
Thanks to the pasta maintainers for writing the tool that allowed me to write magicov, and for the super fast fixing of the strange bugs I reported to it.
Also, thanks to all the Faraday Team for letting me write the tool and use it in our product.