Episode 283: 283: Kill All Mutants with Dave Aronson
How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.
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Show Notes
How good are your tests? Would they still pass if the tested code was changed much? If so, there's probably a problem with your code, your tests, or both! Dave Aronson educated Brittany on how Mutation Testing helps reveal these cases.
Links for this episode:
- Kill All Mutants Abstractions Slides
- Mutation Testing
- Codosaurus, LLC
- Mutant Gem on Github
- Mutest on Github
- Heckle on Github
- Dave Aronson on Twitter (@DaveAronson)
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
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