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#139 - A Developer's Guide to Effective Software Testing - Mauricio Aniche

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How to Write a Test That Is Different From Normal Testing

I loved your analogy using mutants to explain how this mutation testing works. I think it's true that I think if you have a very low coverage of kind of like the poor test suite you will not be able to kill the mutants so to speak right? Your test will always pass because you don't cover enough. Another technique that you mentioned in your book is called property testing. How does this differ and what is property testing? Yeah, so property based testing is the way of writing a test that is different from the way we write normal testsright. So usually when we write a normal test which I call example based test in the book.

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