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by ltdanimal 2903 days ago
I think you have that flipped. 20% of code covers 80%. As you try to get to 100% coverage of all possible scenarios the complexity gets in some cases exponentially harder as all the low hanging fruit is picked
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So he is exactly right : 80% of the code handles edges cases. You are the one who is flipped.
20% of code covers 80%. 80% of code covers 19%.