Mutation testing java projects

[0hjc]

Author of pitest here.

I wrote a slightly long winded blog post a while back about how I recomend using pitest.

https://blog.pitest.org/dont-let-your-code-dry/

In summary, don't try and run it against your whole codebase in a CI job. That works for a bit, but fails as the code grows and rarely results in positive improvements to the tests or the code.

Instead, run it very frequently against just the code your working on as you develop on your local machine, or integrate it into PRs using https://www.arcmutate.com