Can we avoid big PRs with lots of code generated by bots? :)

My experience is that the bots will generate even more completely
worthless tests to try to satisfy line coverage metrics / goals. Tests
that ... exercise the code but don't actually make any valuable
assertions.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 6:17 AM Alan Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’ve been using a python script that combines our existing gradle coverage 
> tool with https://github.com/Bachmann1234/diff_cover to highlight any new 
> lines in a commit that aren’t covered by unit tests, which has been very 
> helpful in finding untested corners of big PRs (especially useful when lots 
> of code is generated by bots).  It occurs to me that this would also be 
> useful as an opt-in GitHub action, maybe triggered by a specific label being 
> applied to a PR.  What do people think?  Keeping it opt-in would be important 
> I think as the reports can be noisy, and of course not all coverage gaps 
> really need to be filled.
>
> - Alan

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