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Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?
published 2 months, 9 days ago, submitted by kpanghmc 2 months, 10 days ago

kevinwilliampang.com — Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has long been the ultimate goal of testing fanatics. But is code coverage really all that useful? If I told you that my application has 100% code coverage, should that mean anything to you?

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Yes, yes it is that useful, but it's only as useful as the quality of the tests that back up the coverage.
posted by dotnetchris 2 months, 8 days ago



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