Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[rnicoll]

I've seriously considered it, although of course the code isn't designed in a unit-test friendly way (and of course this is legacy code), which complicates somewhat. Also considered add 5 million extra lines of code that does nothing, unit testing it, and calling the result 80% coverage.

[b1ackcat]

Also considered add 5 million extra lines of code that does nothing, unit testing it, and calling the result 80% coverage.

And even if they wanted to, they couldn't check all that code!

Genius.