[Zope-dev] find unused objects: hopefully the last misunderstanding... :o)

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
> If there is a central part in zope (ZPublisher?) which always runs when
> methods/scripts/etc  are called, one could patch it to also log the path
> of the object which is called (the physical path!).
> Then just use a web spider which crawls the whole site, and after that
> compare the list which has been produced by the method above to the list
> of objects in your ZODB.
>
> Everything which hasn't been touched is an orphan.

Combine this with a regression test suite that exercised all of
the site's functionality and pages, and you'd have something.

As with Unit Tests, if it isn't tested, it should be deleted <grin>.

--RDM