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Friday, June 13, 2008
Code Coverage is a negative metrics tool
This is something we forgot on our way with coverage tools over the years and I think, needs to be restated. Its really not important how much code is covered by your unit tests(assuming they are good) but rather which parts of code is not been covered by your tests.
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