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by nrnrjrjrj 603 days ago
There is an art to writing tests especially getting absraction levels right. For example do you integration test hitting the password field with 1000 cases or do that as a unit test, and does doing it as a unit test sufficiently cover this.

AI could do all this thinking in the future but not yet I believe!

Let alone the codebase is likely a mess of bad practice already (never seen one that isn't! That is life) so often part of the job is leaving the campground a bit better than how you found it.

LLMs can help now on last mile stuff. Fill in this one test. Generate data for 100 test cases. Etc.