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Working with several customers over the past years, one of the NFR being enforced by customers is Code Coverage, some customers push for 80% while some others ask for 90%. Even had a client which asks for 95% in older days. Also, there is significant cost and effort involved with increasing coverage compliance. And once the said coverage is achieved, its assumed the code is good and safe. Testability of code is a whole story alltogether that deserves a post separately, this post targets more of coverage part.

Offcourse 100% is something next to impossible and thats what nobody dares it to ask or enforce. And this gives a margin for 5 or 10% or even 20% and here comes the problem set of problems. Lets deep dive in, consider the following code.

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Async Await is one of the best feature that has changed a lot of dynamics in the recent past, but it has created same amount confusion and chaos. Lot of bad practices, wrong usage has plagued the very usage. I have refactored a very huge WPF code with lots of out ref and reference based codebase to new pattern, on covering ~80% of it, faced a few challenges reverted back. Then after a month took the task again and completed migration.

I do receive a lot of issues in PRs around this. Based on this feeling that there would be many others who are facing such isssue, this post is more targetted from experiences. There could be log of posts and videos and shit load of resources, but I would try to write it concisely and in simple language/. Again, comments are open for discussion.

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