Great Lakes Software Symposium

November 21 - 23, 2008 - Chicago, IL


Westin Chicago Northwest
400 Park Boulevard
Itasca, IL   60143
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How to Fail with 100% Code Coverage

Over the last few years, we have taken dozens of projects to 100% coverage, and there are still plenty of things that can go wrong. We will look at examples the various problems, and show how to prevent them from infecting your project.

With an expressive language such as Groovy or Ruby and with modern test practices, 100% C0 test coverage is readily achievable. But 100% coverage is meaningless without other supporting habits and practices. Over the last few years, we have taken dozens of projects to 100% coverage, and there are still plenty of things that can go wrong.

We will look at examples of each of these problems, and show how to prevent them from infecting your project:

* Fragile mocking
* Pair bravado
* The ugly mirror
* Parallel abstraction
* Overspecification
* Underspecification
* Invisible code
* Misplaced exemplar

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.

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