[HN Gopher] Go Assembly Mutation Testing
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Go Assembly Mutation Testing
Author : Metalnem
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-07-31 17:23 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| jasonthorsness wrote:
| Code coverage not being meaningful because all instructions are
| always executed in order to make the crypto function constant-
| time is certainly a niche issue! It's great to see such rigor
| going into Go.
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| Not assembly, but one of the side benefits of Go's infamously
| verbose error handling is that code coverage generally tells you
| when you've never tested error cases. It gives a more fine-
| grained picture than languages using exception handling (unless
| you try/catch at a similarly fine-grained level).
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