My reaction to this is... if you're writing tests for pointless things to test.. it means that your testing framework/approach may not be giving you more of wha

My reaction to this is... if you're writing tests for pointless things to test.. it means that your testing framework/approach may not be giving you more of what you need... or it could be a defect in the language. In Unit testing, you should only be testing the code you wrote. (Contract testing is more of an assurance test) In Java you have to write unit tests for your getters and setters because they might do more than what you expected (as that's within the realm of possiblity) If you find yourself writting getters or setter tests .. you should be looking into a better language like Groovy, Scala that do it for you, or something like Lombok or Records in later JDKs.