---
title: "Pitest: Do You Test Your Tests?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/pitest-do-you-test-your-tests--fhfvefact
source_url: https://foojay.io/today/pitest-do-you-test-your-tests/
type: article
source: "Foojay.io"
published: 2023-08-15T14:40:51.822Z
updated: 2026-04-17T02:12:37.528Z
tags: ["cli", "mutation-testing", "testing"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Pitest: Do You Test Your Tests?

**[Foojay.io](https://daily.dev/sources/foojayio)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Pitest: Do You Test Your Tests? Friends of OpenJDK Today What is Pitest? Pitest is a library that helps us do mutation testing. Mutation testing is a process in which random variations of the code under test are generated. If the test fails, the mutation is killed, if it still passes it lives.

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Tags: [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#mutation-testing](https://daily.dev/tags/mutation-testing), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing)

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