Trust is earned not inherited importedFrom. Now that you’ve built a
cool package, you want potential users to trust it so that they might
adopt it. How to build trust in your piece of software? Unit testing is
part of the components building trustworthiness of your package. Imagine
you’re at the point where you’ve tested most lines of your code with
thorough assertions, including checks of edge cases. Proof of that hard
work will be a high test coverage, that potential users of your package
might notice thanks to a bright green coverage badge. But how would they
know your tests are thorough? That’s what covrpage
helps you with, by
creating a summary report of your tests that goes
beyond the coverage percentage. This way, potential users can see at a
glance how good the unit testing of your package is.
covrpage
report only for users?No, it can also inform your work on your package, by helping you track progress of the unit tests you’re working on, and it can show to potential contributors where help is needed.
# install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github('yonicd/covrpage')
# assuming you are in your package root directory
covrpage::covrpage()
# create the covrpage and send directly to remote repository
covrpage::covrpage(auto_push = TRUE)
# Copy output as a vignette to use in pkgdown
covrpage::covrpage(vignette = TRUE)
# assuming you are not in your package directory
covrpage::covrpage(path = 'another_directory')
covrpage can be outputed as a vignette called Tests and Coverage
making it part of the package help documentation and can be viewed as an
article
in a pkgdown site.
If you also have covrpage
on your site and want to add it to the list
you can submit a Pull
Request
to this README.
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