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 q

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.