The 100% Code Coverage Trap

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As someone who works within, or closely to, a development team that is passionate about quality code and automated tests, you may have come across the code coverage report. You might even have used a code coverage report to gain a high level overview of unit tests in your product.

The code coverage report is a tool that is often used to review how much of a given code base is covered by tests (commonly unit tests)…