Paco van Beckhoven is a passionate and experienced software engineer that likes to challenge the world and the software around him.
He's working as a senior software engineer at Hexagon where his main focus is to improve the development process.
He regularly speaks at conferences to entertain, and more importantly, educate visitors on various topics with a focus on software quality.
After completing his master thesis on test effectiveness, he tries to get more people started with mutation testing.

LOCATION: St. Gallen
ROOM: OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Rosenbergstrasse 59, St.Gallen, room FZ 427, 4th floor, Travel instructions
KEYWORDS: Open Source, Testing, Tools

SPEAKER: Paco van Beckhoven   COMPANY: Hexagon

We write tests to tackle bugs, verify functionality and to ease maintenance.
Using code coverage as our metric we might deem ourselves safe and our tests flawless.
But how can we be sure that our tests are okay? The fact that tests cover the code doesn't imply the code is working correctly.
A missing assertion can be an opening for a plethora of bugs!

In this talk we will enter the world of mutation testing.
By generating mutants, i.e., faulty versions of your code, we measure how tests perform in detecting bugs.
We will cover mutation tools, how they work, how to get started, how to integrate it in your builds and when you should consider it.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Paco van Beckhoven is a passionate and experienced software engineer that likes to challenge the world and the software around him.
He's working as a senior software engineer at Hexagon where his main focus is to improve the development process.
He regularly speaks at conferences to entertain, and more importantly, educate visitors on various topics with a focus on software quality.
After completing his master thesis on test effectiveness, he tries to get more people started with mutation testing.

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