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Comment by aitchnyu

15 hours ago

Is my intuition correct that Mutmut has far better ROI than Hypothesis? And its as necessary as code coverage?

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pfdietz  12 hours ago

Mutation testing and PBT frameworks like Hypothesis are complementary. One can use the latter to find tests that kill mutants.

whattheheckheck  15 hours ago

In large code bases it is extraordinarily slow so you have to use it sparingly

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