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It would be really nice to be able to take two runs of software and compare which lines got executed using Clover.
I do see a PERL Script available at:
http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34519&tstart=0
but I have no idea how to run PERL. I stay 100% Java for many reasons.
Running twice and comparing is not useful for just code coverage. It is also very useful for code development. I build walking robots and often I'll run two different things on the robot that are 80% the same. One will work well, the other will work poorly. So then I try to figure out what differences are causing the difference in performance.
It would be really useful to run one, then run the other, then see which code that got executed was the same and which code was different.
You could use a set of colors for the comparison. One color for first run only, one for second run only, one for both runs, one color for neither run.
Please consider it, especially if it's not too hard to implement. I think there are lots of people who would like to know differences in code coverage between various runs or settings.