abdirakhman / cs453-assignment2-python-coverage

CS453 Assignment 2: Coverage Profiler for Python

With this assignment, we will try implementing a basic coverage profiler for Python that can measure statement and branch in a similar way to the widely used coverage.py. Write a program that accepts another Python script file, as well as its arguments (if any required), and prints out the coverage achieved. The skeleton code, called pcov.py, contains a specific format. Consider the following target code, example2.py, which you can find under the directry examples:

import sys 

x = int(sys.argv[1])
y = int(sys.argv[2])

if x == 10 and y == 5:
    print("Hello")
elif y == 1:
    print("Welcome")
else:
    print("Bye")

When you invoke pcov.py as follows:

$ python3 pcov.py -t examples/example2.py 5 5

it should print out the following (note that 5 5 at the end is consumed as command line arguments for the target script, example2.py).

=====================================
Statement Coverage: 75.00% (6 / 8)
Branch Coverage: 50.00% (2 / 4)
=====================================
$

The profiler should also support the verbose mode (specified by option -m), in which the missing statements and branches should be printed. A branch from line number a to b can be represented a->b.

$ python3 pcov.py -v -t examples/example2.py 5 5
=====================================
Statement Coverage: 75.00% (6 / 8)
Missing Statements: 7, 9
Branch Coverage: 50.00% (2 / 4)
Missing Branches: 6->7, 8->9
=====================================
$

The output format is already specidied in the skeleton code. You need to provide covered and total statements/branches, as well as two lists that contain string representations for missing statements/branches.

Scopes

Here are clarifications about the scope of the coverage.

• We will consider the behaviour of coverage.py as the reference. You can check the reference behaviour by running coverage.py and looking at the json report. Please see the documentation for the details.

• Note that coverage.json uses the line number -1 to denote the end of the program.

Skeleton and Test Code

This repository includes a skeleton code named pcov.py for your profiler. Please keep the existing code and the command line interface provided, so that GitHub Classroom can run the automated grading scripts. The usage is:

$ python pcov.py -t [your target python script file] [any command-line arguments]

The repository also includes public test cases: please refer to them for more detail.

Libraries and Python Version

• The template repository is configured with Python 3.10.
• We will use coverage.py version 7.2.3 as the gold standard.