Why Coverage Isn’t Everything: Rethinking Your Testing Approach

Greg L. Turnquist

3 min readMar 5

--

Do you take pride in high coverage scores? Do you compare coverage percentages with colleagues to see who is doing better?

This is probably wrong.

Unequivocally, undeniably, ecumenically wrong.

And probably time to rethink your approach.

Greg L. Turnquist

Written by Greg L. Turnquist

Developer on the Spring team and the host of Spring Boot Learning at https://youtube.com/@SpringBootLearning and author of best selling Learning Spring Boot.

More from Greg L. Turnquist

Greg L. Turnquist

Using Micrometer to trace your Spring Boot app

If there’s one thing that eventually sneaks up on you after building and releasing an application, it’s that something breaks. Yup…

7 min readNov 10, 2022

--

Greg L. Turnquist

Using Micrometer to trace your Spring Data JPA application

In a previous article, we saw the goodness of stirring a little Micrometer into our Spring Boot 3 application to trace what our application…

5 min readDec 1, 2022

--

Greg L. Turnquist

Actually, Spring Integration May Be My Favorite Spring Project

While Spring Security is wickedly powerful and essential for securing Java applications, there’s another Spring project that is equally…

6 min readApr 1

--

Greg L. Turnquist

Spring Boot 3 + OAuth 2 = YouTube!

One of the coolest things people reach for in building web apps, is off loading authentication to one of the three biggies: Facebook…

6 min readMay 18, 2022

--

See all from Greg L. Turnquist

Recommended from Medium

Love Sharma
in
Dev Genius

System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide

Developing a robust, scalable, and efficient system can be daunting. However, understanding the key concepts and components can make the…

9 min readApr 20

--

Software test pyramid and stages

Andreea-QA
in
The QA LEAD

An Expert’s Guide To Understanding The Testing Pyramid

Here’s my guide on the automation test pyramid — a common concept often misused

6 min readMar 13

--

Lists

Stories to Help You Grow as a Software Developer

19 stories61 saves

Leadership

30 stories24 saves

Good Product Thinking

11 stories62 saves

Stories to Help You Level-Up at Work

19 stories49 saves

Zhimin Zhan

Correct two Common Misconceptions: End-to-End Test Automation is “Simple and Easy” or “Complex and…

There has always been a “Simple and Correct” solution, but few want to take it.

10 min readMar 7

--

Willem-Jan Ageling
in
Serious Scrum

Does Scrum hold up to scrutiny? — The Sprint Retrospective

Chapter 12

6 min readMay 21

--

Dragos Bogdan
in
ILLUMINATION

Mastering Quality Assurance: The Key Elements of an Effective QA Process

Strategies and Techniques for Achieving Exceptional Quality in Software Development through Effective QA Processes

6 min readMar 13

--

Zhimin Zhan

Automated Testers Advocate for ChatGPT (AI) is like taxi drivers Singing for Driverless cars

It is interesting to analyse the reasoning behind it. By the way, Real Test Automation Engineers won’t believe ChatGPT will ever work for…

4 min readMar 15

--

See more recommendations

Help
Status
Writers
Blog
Careers
Privacy
Terms
About
Text to speech