Is there some formal way(s) of quantifying potential flaws, or risk, and ensuring there’s sufficient spread of tests to cover them? Perhaps using some kind of complexity measure? Or a risk assessment of some kind?

Experience tells me I need to be extra careful around certain things - user input, code generation, anything with a publicly exposed surface, third-party libraries/services, financial data, personal information (especially of minors), batch data manipulation/migration, and so on.

But is there any accepted means of formally measuring a system and ensuring that some level of test quality exists?

  • Zoe Codez
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    11 year ago

    There are tools to detail the code coverage if your tests. I’ve worked with Istanbul in the past, and it’s helped to point out parts of the code that could use more attention

    https://istanbul.js.org/