<ul><li>Mutation testing, particularly with PIT (Pitest), is crucial for ensuring effective test coverage in Spring Boot applications by introducing intentional bugs to validate the test suite.</li><li>PIT integrates well with Maven/Gradle, JUnit, and TestNG, aiding in uncovering weak test assertions, encouraging behavior-driven tests, and justifying test coverage.</li><li>To set up PIT with Maven, you need to add the plugin to pom.xml, run mutation tests using specific commands, and analyze the generated report to visualize killed/survived mutants.</li><li>Effective mutation testing tips include starting with core business logic, avoiding over-mocking, using filters to skip low-value mutations, enabling parallel execution, and integrating PIT into CI pipelines to improve code quality.</li></ul>

Mutation Testing with PIT for Spring Boot Applications

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