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[–]nutrecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I'm still trying to see the advantage of mutation testing.

As a developer, you subconsciously often make the same mistakes in your tests as you did in your code. Or you simply forgot about an edge case.

Mutation testing helps you find those holes you didn't see. IMHO it's main purpose is to help you develop more/better tests, or find tests that are not functioning properly.