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by Couto 1720 days ago
Coverage only indicates which parts of the codebase were touched by the test suite. A big test suite size doesn't mean high coverage.

Coverage can be increased without increasing the test suite by reducing the code base size (within pratical limits obviously)

Personally, I only find coverage as a good indicator of which code still needs to be tested, like forgetting some edge cases or conditional branches.