Mutation Testing, or What Code Coverage Keeps Silent About
summary
Covers mutation testing as a way to evaluate test quality beyond code coverage by introducing small changes (mutations) into Java code and checking whether tests detect them. Discusses tools and techniques for applying mutation testing in Java projects and contrasts mutation analysis results with traditional code coverage metrics.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Code coverage problems
- 3:17Mutation testing history
- 8:28How mutation analysis works
- 11:30Mutation targets selection
- 15:45PIT mutators types
- 21:29TDD three laws
- 23:41Success case at L.com
- 26:37Mutation testing performance
- 34:05Parallel analysis
- 39:00Incremental analysis
- 44:50Q&A
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