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Re:Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to th... by janosdebugs on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:58AM (#39490209)
This kind of thinking is sadly lost on many. I have seen copious amounts of nonsensical tests slapped full of hard-wired mocks and any change in the functionality would break hundreds of tests. In such a scenario an LLM might be the bandaid many are looking for. Then again, the value of such tests is questionable.
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Re:Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to th... by robryk on Saturday February 24, 2024 @04:51AM (#39490409)
My best example of that was a test that was asserting that a monitoring metric changes in some way with a comment expressing doubt whether the asserted values are correct (but whoever wrote it still wrote the test that enshrined the behaviour that they themselves doubted).
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