Code Coverage Is A Broken Metric
Read OriginalThis article critiques the over-reliance on code coverage metrics in software development. It compares code coverage to IQ scores, arguing both are incomplete measures of the underlying quality they purport to assess. Using code examples, it demonstrates how 100% coverage can still mask critical bugs and incomplete implementations, emphasizing that coverage only measures which code paths are executed, not test comprehensiveness or correctness.
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