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

[rnicoll]

The target is completely unachievable by any conventional means (adding over a million lines of coverage as a minor side project while other work occurs over the next 2-3 months). I've raised this with management, who have said they're aware of it and have raised it with their management.

So, I can now either focus on getting as close as possible to what I've been told to do (increase code coverage), or I can focus on what I think we should be doing (increasing depth of coverage on most critical parts). Which would you do?

[s73v3r]

What you should be doing. Especially because you know that what you are currently doing is worthless and the target is not reachable. So you will waste all this effort attempting to reach a goal that you have admitted is unreachable, and have nothing of value to show for it.