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methods covered by tests whose entire body can be removed without any test failing, a sign of weak test assertions.

In software engineering, pseudo-tested methods refers to methods covered by tests whose entire body can be removed without any test failing, a sign of weak test assertions. This meaning comes from Niedermayr (2016) in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery.[1]

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Niedermayr, R., Juergens, E., & Wagner, S. (2016). Will my tests tell me if I break this code? Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2896941.2896944

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