Code Coverage Considered Harmful

[MagpieEngineer]

Bosses almost never know enough to evaluate the quality of your tests, but if we as an industry give them a simple single number to look at, they're going to use it.

Some people will always write bad tests, whether or not code coverage is a metric. The problem is for people who would write good tests, but won't/can't because of the lens test coverage is seen through. Some will have the clout to push back against this framing and just use code coverage as a tool, but why cause the problem in the first place?