To be able to see the level of coverage with the current test suite, do the following: - make sure gcov is installed - compile with BUILD/compile-pentium-gcov ( if your machine is not pentium, hack this script, or just live with the pentium-specific stuff) - ./mysql-test-run -gcov - to see the level of coverage for a given source file: grep source_file_name /tmp/gcov.out - to see which lines are not yet covered, look at source_file_name.gcov in the source tree. Then think hard about a test case that will cover those lines, and write one!