[Biopython-dev] Online tools to track our test coverage & code quality

[Tiago Antao]

Hi,

I also tried quantifiedcode quite some time ago:
https://www.quantifiedcode.com/app/project/gh:tiagoantao:biopython
Minimally invasive. Worth checking.



On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:01:31 +0000
Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've just been looking at https://codecov.io/ for logging unit test
> coverage, which can be used an add on on top of the GitHub and
> TravisCI with just a few small changes to the .travis.yml file:
> 
> https://github.com/peterjc/biopython/tree/codecov
> 
> You can see the output from my test branch here - I like how you can
> drill down to individual files and see via the colouring which lines
> were never executed during the test run:
> 
> https://codecov.io/github/peterjc/biopython?branch=codecov
> 
> Other languages are supported, but for Python at least, this captures
> unit test coverage via the tool coverage:
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage
> 
> Overall CodeCov.io seems minimally invasive, is provided free for open
> source projects, and unless anyone objects I would like to enable
> this on the main Biopython repository.
> 
> ---
> 
> On a related note, some of you may be aware of https://landscape.io/
> which does a related job of assessing Python code quality using flake8
> and other tools which Tiago setup for us in December last year:
> 
> https://landscape.io/github/biopython/biopython
> 
> We really ought to look at that more often - even just skimming the
> errors earlier today I found several little things in areas of the
> code I look after which were easy to fix like double imports etc, see
> this commit and its parents:
> 
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/a46eaf3d615d97f541a779901b4cb2e736afc12d
> 
> In general this highlights still a lots of bits of our code which
> uses unsafe mutable objects like lists and dictionaries as default
> arguments.
> 
> --
> 
> Would people be in favour of using badge icons in the main README file
> to show the master branch's current TravisCI, coverage, etc status?
> 
> Making this information more prominent might help encourage us
> to get the test coverage and code metrics up ;)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
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