Towards Better Unit Testing
December 04, 2016
Last year, I wrote a post about the problems with code coverage as a metric, and left the topic as “to be continued”, saying that I had some ideas for a better approach. Well, it's taken long enough, but here are the first pieces in that objective to evolve a better way to create and measure well-tested software.
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Code Coverage is a Terrible Metric
June 01, 2015
One of the areas I’m focusing on right now is the subject of testing. Automated testing in general, and at the moment, unit testing specifically. And one observation keeps jumping out at me:
Code coverage is a terrible metric
What is code coverage? Briefly, it’s the number or percentage of the lines of code in your . . .