Mutation Testing

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Mutation testing for Kotlin projects using Gradle: how to measure and improve test-suite effectiveness by introducing mutations, spotting weak tests, and strengthening tests to reduce bugs. The workshop covers concrete tooling and examples applied to server-side APIs and CI pipelines, showing how to integrate mutation testing into Kotlin + Gradle workflows.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:29What is mutation testing?
3. 10:14Initial exercises
4. 17:20Mutants and coverage
5. 27:42PTest with Gradle
6. 35:07Mutation reports analysis
7. 51:49Extreme mutation testing
8. 55:27GitHub Actions integration
9. 1:08:50Final reflections

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