By: Sebastien Dufour-Beausejour
Interesting use of mutation testing! From my own experimentation, mutation testing is useful as a tool to use during development and less as a quality guard (say, in a CI or a git hook) due to the very...
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The logic of refactoring test code is very interesting: IMO one can’t just do that, because it tosses out the guarantee that it still tests what one thinks it does. So I actually break my application...
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In reply to Sebastien Dufour-Beausejour. Thanks for the link! I’ve been hearing talk about mutation switching, I’ll be interested to see what sort of performance gains we can achieve once that’s...
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In reply to Robb. Indeed, that sounds like a very targeted mutation test. That could be especially useful when working with really large source files. Focusing on a specific area by hand may be quicker...
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