Netbeans CoverageProvider should be enhanced to support branch coverage
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Description
### Description
Right Now Coverage API only support covered/not covered lines. Would be nice to also add indicators for branches coverage.
An additional column could be add to display Covered/Non Covered branches
### Use case/motivation
A python coverage report can display branches coverage information. It is a valuable information that can be display in the Netbeans Code Coverage Report.
### Related issues
https://github.com/albilu/netbeansPython/issues/11
### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the NetBeans CoverageProvider and Coverage API entry points mentioned in the issue, then review the related Python coverage issue. Determine how branch coverage should be represented alongside covered and non-covered lines, including the proposed additional column; done means the API and report can display branch coverage indicators.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, python
- Domain
- testing-qa, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100