Packages and dependencies

[Іван Кочергін]

Hello everyone!

I`m trying to create regression test suite for a program with max coverage. My foundings are: 

• coverage increases when we provide literals;
• coverage increases when we provide dependencies (additional classes which are used by tested classes);
• total coverage of several smaller test-suites created for each package separately is bigger than coverage of one big test-suite created for whole project.

The part about literals is obvious and described in manual pretty well. The real questions are:

1. Can we provide dependencies automaticaly?
2. Can we define not tested jar or list of classes, but tested package, and include all classes under this package?
3. Can we split one run into several smaller runs and create several suites?

If no, is this possible to implement this features? In what classes should I look to do that? These features would be useful for me, and I hope they would be useful for other developers as well.

Thank you for your help,

Ivan