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by quadrifoliate 1253 days ago
At an old job, one manager would put in his employees' annual reports stuff like "Developer X wrote N automated tests, fixed M bugs, and filed P new bugs this quarter..."

The obvious result of Goodhart's Law ensued, leading to test cases like you mention.

Lesson to leaders: Please stop your bad managers from pulling stupid crap like this. It wastes a lot more time in the longer run.