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by lmm 1839 days ago
Coverage can tell you what you didn't test, but it can't tell you what you did test.

> Any test that exercises a given branch is better than nothing.

I disagree with this. If you have a test that doesn't actually test anything, you can't tell that you're not really testing that branch. No test is better than a bad test because it's easier to fix.