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Are 100% code coverage reasonable?

Are 100% code coverage reasonable?

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When you use a code coverage tool one of the first question is what is a good code coverage. Recently I listened to different podcasts (stackoverflow, scott hanselman) where they discuss this topic. I wasn’t really surprised that there wasn’t one unique opinion.One opinion was that 100% is a good number, an other opinion was that for non-failing code it doesn’t make sense to build a test, so 100% isn’t a good number for most of the projects.The last opinion…

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Eat your own dog food

Eat your own dog food

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Recently I heard the expression “eat your own dog food” again. For a company which produce software for a customer it is very usefull to use the same technology or product in house. But this expression is also usefull in the daily business of a modern software developer. One big advantage of test driven development (TDD) is, that you change the perspective before you code a class or a method. In the test first approach you create the test before…

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