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Re:I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with... by postalrat on Sunday August 15, 2021 @10:32PM (#28194437)
Would that be more desirable than building your tests from your application?

Seems to me that once you can go either way then you just proved the other redundant.

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Re:I tested Copilot in an existing open-source codebase with... by h0l0cube on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:02AM (#28196194)
The central thesis of this diatribe is that in order to have a 'complete' unit^ test, you need something at least as complicated as the original code:

https://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste...

^ where the 'unit' is basically a function. i.e., to test a function fully, write a test as complicated as the function

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