Do I have a healthy test suite?

Source: Owned by the authorWith TDD etc we are all assuming that we have a healthy test suite. Now some researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium have published a way to actaully measure this. Their idea is to plot

  • on one axis the percentage of the total code base that is test rather than production code and
  • on the other axis the test coverage.

In a healthy project, they argue, the coverage should increase or at least not decrease while the test code percentage grows or does not decrease.

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  • Test coverage versus percentage of code that is test: Owned by the author

About Greger Wikstrand

Greger Wikstrand, Ph.D. M.Sc. is a TOGAF 9 certified enterprise architect with an interest in e-heatlh, m-health and all things agile as well as processes, methods and tools. Greger Wikstrand works as a consultant at Capgemini where he alternates between enterprise agile coaching, problem solving and designing large scale e-health services ...

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