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Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)

by dave-aronson

Code coverage tells you what code runs—mutation testing tells you if your tests would actually catch bugs by deliberately breaking code and checking whether tests fail.

testingmutation-testingcode-qualitytddJan 10, 2026

Mutation Testing Skill

by paul-hammond

Code coverage lies about test quality—mutation testing exposes weak tests by asking 'if I introduced a bug here, would my tests catch it?'

testingtddclaude-codecode-qualityJan 6, 2026
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