Code integrity

<p>Code integrity is a measurement used in the software delivery lifecycle. It measures how high the <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a>'s quality is when it is passed on to <a href="/facts/Quality_assurance/BhDeyhel">QA</a>, and is affected by how thoroughly the code was processed by correctness-checking processes (whether manual or automatic). Examples for such correctness-checking processes can be <a href="/facts/Unit_tests/SYoGGS3T">unit testing</a> and <a href="/facts/Integration_test/FcPo9Fmn">integration testing</a>, code review, test automation, AI-based code analysis etc. Code integrity is the combination of applying code correctness processes (software quality) along with metrics that measure the completeness of these correctness-checking processes, such as, for example, code coverage. While code integrity is usually achieved by unit testing the source code to reach high code coverage, it is definitely not the only way, or the best way, to achieve code integrity. In fact, code coverage, a popular metric to measure the thoroughness of unit tests, is known to have a limited correlation with the measure of real code integrity.
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Code integrity