A lot of our test coverage is coming from the fact that there are a lot of deep rooted internal couplings and static method calls which cannot be mocked. This is massively throwing off our coverage reports and misrepresenting our actual state of the test suite. We need to work through the test suite to explicitly mark what the test cases are actually covering so we stop having leakage of covered code through test cases that aren't designed to be covering certain methods (i.e. JApplicationCmsTest shouldn't be covering the JDate constructor). This will help to better represent what we have explicit test cases and coverage for and therefore help us to better refine our test suite.

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