AI for tests and boilerplate, and how to review it
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use generated tests safely.
Planned topics
- Assistants write tests quickly, but often weak ones.
- Check each test: does it assert a real result, or only that nothing throws?
- Look for missing cases: empty cart, zero, negative, boundaries.
- Break the code on purpose: a good test fails; a useless test stays green.
- Read generated boilerplate like any other code before you accept it.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
// weak: asserts nothing useful
assertNotNull(service.calculateTotal(cart));
// meaningful
assertEquals(new Money(1800, "EUR"), service.calculateTotal(cart));Check your understanding
How can you test whether a generated test is useful?
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Change the code to be wrong; the test should fail.
Practice
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