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"paradoxically, setting code coverage as a sole target can jeopardise overall code quality and maintainability." Campbell-Goodhart's law, as stated by Marilyn
by cratermoon 3y ago
"paradoxically, setting code coverage as a sole target can jeopardise overall code quality and maintainability."
Campbell-Goodhart's law, as stated by Marilyn Strathern: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
- meepmorp 3y agoI'm mostly joking, but the ideal system is probably having a set of (somewhat?) conflicting metrics and picking one at random on a regular basis as the most significant measure for an organization. You can't stop people from trying to win the game, that's human nature; instead, just keep changing up the rules.