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by enqk 3754 days ago
I wasn't disagreeing!

My reasoning is as follows. Since evaluating coverage in terms of the state space of the program is hard, and no tools that I am aware of is actually calculating that coverage, tools that display coverage in terms of number of lines should not mislead by showing a percentage, and only focus on showing places with no coverage at all.

While in technical terms it seems like the same metric, I think it would encourage its users not to celebrate an arbitrary cap of 100% coverage, and be aware of what the tools can and cannot do.