Re:The Worst Programmer
by JKCalhoun on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:42PM
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That's fine. Myself I have little use for them, I prefer functional testing. (Also, before unit tests we leaned on parameter checking in the live code — a kind of always-on unit test I guess).
Management though use the "percent coverage by unit tests" as some sort of safe/buggy software metric.
Management at one team I worked on was pushing for minimal 95% coverage with unit tests. I thought it was odd that they were so singularly focused on this issue. The impression I had was a that they felt that if you have full code coverage with unit tests, and the test pass — you can lay off the QA team because you are assured that you are shipping perfect software.
Management though use the "percent coverage by unit tests" as some sort of safe/buggy software metric.
Management at one team I worked on was pushing for minimal 95% coverage with unit tests. I thought it was odd that they were so singularly focused on this issue. The impression I had was a that they felt that if you have full code coverage with unit tests, and the test pass — you can lay off the QA team because you are assured that you are shipping perfect software.