Silence of Code Coverage – Time to Test the Tests

Unit tests are guardians for your production code, but “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (“Who will guard the guards themselves?”) What to do if coverage metrics are great, but code is still buggy? It’s time to test the tests! Come discover mutation testing.

Evgeny Mandrikov

Software Gardener at SonarSource, France

Evgeny is a contributor to various open source projects, including OpenJDK, and a speaker at international conferences and JUGs. He is also one of the project leads of widely adopted code coverage tool for Java and Kotlin – JaCoCo, and the award-winning EclEmma project at the Eclipse Foundation that integrates JaCoCo into Eclipse. In his day job at SonarSource Evgeny develops SonarQube’s static source code analysis for languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript.