Patent ID: 8954926
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computational process for detecting script code coverage, the process comprising the computational steps of: receiving in a computer readable storage medium a source code file which contains source code program elements written in a scriptable programming language; determining that script code coverage detection is enabled; performing a program element of the source code by (a) using a debugger to proactively computationally indicate in a coverage data structure that the program element has been reached during performance of the source code, and (b) running non-logger executable code which corresponds to the program element, with operations (a) and (b) integral to one another in that neither operation occurs without the other while script code coverage detection is enabled, wherein said performing comprises an interpreter hitting a proactive breakpoint which is not a user-specified breakpoint and in response to hitting the proactive breakpoint passing control to a code coverage debugger which updates the coverage data structure rather than passing control through to a graphical user interface of the debugger for action by a human user; and repeating the performing step for multiple program elements of the source code.