What can be alternative metrics to code coverage?

Question

Code coverage is propably the most controversial code metric. Some say, you have to reach 80% code coverage, other say, it\'s superficial and does not say anything about your te

Answer 1

Probably not only measuring the code covered (touched) by the unit tests but how good the assertions are.

One metric easy to implement is to measure the size of the Assert.AreEqual

You can create your own Assert implementation calling Assert.AreEqual and measuring the size of the object passed as second parameter.