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Can Mutant list weak-spot subjects to focus on?

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Audience asks whether Mutant can be used to identify the subjects with the most mutations so the team can prioritize improving their tests. Schirp has never needed this himself — in commercial work everything gets touched within ~12 months so incremental mode suffices — but it is conceptually possible. He argues the mutation count per subject is a better complexity metric than cyclomatic complexity.

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Conceptually yes — run only the generation phase and rank subjects by mutation count; Schirp hasn't needed it because incremental mode naturally covers all code within a year of touches.
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