Devon C. Estes:

It’s fairly common for folks who haven’t used mutation testing before to not immediately see the value in the practice. Mutation testing is, after all, still a fairly niche and under-used tool in the average software development team’s toolbox. So today I’m going to show a few specific types of very common problems that mutation testing is great at finding for us, and that are hard or impossible to find with other methods

He goes on to detail the “multiple execution paths on a single line” problem, the “untested side effect” problem, and the “missing pin” problem.