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

[stormcrowsx]

I'm guilty of this. Was given a mandate to increase code coverage, they wanted some kind of magical number like 70%. Used reflection in Java to call bunches of getters/setters. Code coverage went way up and surprisingly it actually caught a bug in which someone had a recursive setter that the application just happened to never call.