CodePro Tutorial

CodePro is a premier Java software testing tool for Eclipse developers who are concerned about improving software quality and reducing developments costs and schedules. In this post, I am going to explain basics on how to use CodePro.

1. What CodePro Offers

Code Analysis

JUnit Test Generation

Metrics

Code Coverage

Dependency Analysis

Similar Code Analysis

JUnit Test Editor

2. Install codePro in eclipse

Get the latest codePro from

https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/download-codepro

and install it in eclipse.

Step 1: Goto Help -> Install New Software

Work with the following URL.

http://dl.google.com/eclipse/inst/codepro/latest/3.7

Once installation done successfully, Restart the eclipse. You are done.

After restarting eclipse, you can able to see CodePro menu.

3. Code Audit

Code Audit is a detailed analysis of code in a project to find bugs, violations of programming practices etc., By auditing code, you can reduce the bugs before delivering the product.

You can perform code audit for a java project using codePro.

I created a project named “codePro” in eclipse. It has “Main.java” file in it.

Main.java

package codePro;

public class Main {
 public int getSum(int a, int b){
  return (a+b);
 }
 
 public static void main(String args[]){
  
 }
}

To perform code audit on the project “codePro”. Right click on the project, CodePro Tools -> Audit code using.

Select CodePro Default and press OK.

CodePro apply audit rules and perform the audit. You can see the audit results in audit tab.

CodePro provides number of audit rule sets, you can select one by your choice.

CodePro -> Preferences -> audit

Select one of the audit set and press ok. 

4. Dynamically Auditing code

By using CodePro, you can audit the code dynamically. By using this facility, developer can audit the code while developing itself.

By default, dynamic auditing facility is disabled. To enable dynamic auditing code facility, CodePro -> Preferences -> audit

Click on Dynamic Auditing menu.

Including/Excluding resources follow ant pattern, For example, adding the pattern "**/com/google/**/*" to the inclusion list would include any files in the com.google package hierarchy. Likewise, adding the "**/generated/**/*" pattern to the exclusion list would cause any file in a package with "generated" in its path to be excluded from dynamic auditing

5. Generate Report

You can generate report for auditing results. Right click on audit results -> Generate Report -> (Select any one option). It saves the results in html format. The audit results can be grouped by audit rule, category (audit rule group), severity, resource or author.

6. Junit test case generation

By using codePro, you can generate junit test cases for a java class. To generate a test case for given class, right click on the package/class -> CodePro Tools -> Generate Test Cases.

Note:

If you generate test case for Main.java, which is in the package com.sample and in the project codeProTutorial, then new project codeProTutorialTest is created and MainTest.java file is placed in com.sample package of the project package codeProTutorialTest.

You can tweak number of option like generating javadoc cmments for test cases, maximum number of test cases for a method etc., To tweak junit test options.

CodePro->Preferences->Junit

Referred Articles

https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/codepro/doc/features/junit/test_case_generation