Test Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness

Posted by pabs3 on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:47AM
from the neverworkintheory.org dept.

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Re:Test Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite ... by mshanowitz on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:53AM (#28660140)

Coverage is still a good target to aim for because it ultimately does lead to people writing bigger and better tests.

"…there is a moderate to high correlation between the effectiveness and the coverage of a test suite when the influence of suite size is ignored."

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