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by jes 847 days ago
> At a large insurance company I worked for, management set a target of 80% test coverage across our entire codebase. So people started writing stupid unit tests for getters and setters in Java DTOs to reach the goal.

I attended many TOC conferences in the 90s and early 2000s. Eli Goldratt was famous for saying "Tell me how you'll measure me, and I'll tell you how I will behave."