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- "Code coverage visualizations using block coverage neither guided developers
toward productive testing strategies, nor did these visualizations motivate
developers to write more tests or help them find more faults than the control
group. Nevertheless, code coverage visualizations did influence developers in a
few important ways. Code coverage visualizations led developers to overestimate
their test effectiveness more than the control group. Yet, these same visualizations
reduced the variability in the number of test cases developers wrote by changing
the standard developers used to evaluate their test effectiveness.
Thus, the true power of testing visualizations lies not only with the faults
that visualizations can highlight; it also lies in how visualizations can change how
developers think about testing. Testing visualizations guide developers toward
a particular standard of effectiveness, so if we want developers to test software
adequately, we must ensure that the coverage criteria we choose to visualize leads
developers toward a good standard of test effectiveness."--Conclusion
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