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Better testing through mutations

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

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Can Mutation Testing Help Find Test Coverage Gaming?

Mutation testing is great at determining the completeness of your test suite. It's also great at finding places where assertion boundaries are too loose. They will find those for you, then you can augment your test we to include those those a loose er to tighten the assertions and to include the test cases you miss. Can mutation testing help find test coverage gaming? We've seen it in organizations where people game that metric.

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