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If you want to discount a tool that may save you an immense amount of time because you might have to help it along the fast few feet, thats up to you. If you c

If you want to discount a tool that may save you an immense amount of time because you might have to help it along the fast few feet, thats up to you. If you can share a tool that can analyze a function and create a test for all corner cases in a popular language, I'm sure some people would be interested in that.

mgh95 1y ago
You should look up intellitest and reshaper test generator. Products exist for this.
- imtringued 1y ago
  Maybe you should have brought that up earlier instead of acting smug and burying the lede? It's also pretty telling that you didn't elaborate this further and kept your comment short. What you should have said is that some parameterized test generators do automated white box testing where they look at your code similar to a fuzzer and try to find the test cases automatically. Your first link is literally just setting up an array with test cases, which basically means you'd have to use an LLM to quickly produce the test cases anyway, which makes parameterized testing sound exceedingly pathetic. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/generate-unit-tests-for-your-code-with-intellitest?view=vs-2022 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/generate... >IntelliTest explores your .NET code to generate test data and a suite of unit tests. For every statement in the code, a test input is generated that will execute that statement. A case analysis is performed for every conditional branch in the code. For example, if statements, assertions, and all operations that can throw exceptions are analyzed. This analysis is used to generate test data for a parameterized unit test for each of your methods, creating unit tests with high code coverage. Think of it as smart fuzz testing that trims down the inputs and test cases to what executes all your logic branches and checks for exceptions.
  - mgh95 1y ago
    > Maybe you should have brought that up earlier instead of acting smug and burying the lede? It's also pretty telling that you didn't elaborate this further and kept your comment short. I thought people were generally competent within the areas they discuss and are aware of the tooling within their preferred ecosystem. I apologize if that is not the case.
    - VectorLock 1y ago
      Reshaper huh... "With AI Assistant, you can generate unit tests for C# methods." https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Generate_tests.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Generate_tests.html

mgh95 1y ago

You should look up intellitest and reshaper test generator. Products exist for this.

imtringued 1y ago
Maybe you should have brought that up earlier instead of acting smug and burying the lede? It's also pretty telling that you didn't elaborate this further and kept your comment short. What you should have said is that some parameterized test generators do automated white box testing where they look at your code similar to a fuzzer and try to find the test cases automatically. Your first link is literally just setting up an array with test cases, which basically means you'd have to use an LLM to quickly produce the test cases anyway, which makes parameterized testing sound exceedingly pathetic. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/generate-unit-tests-for-your-code-with-intellitest?view=vs-2022 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/generate... >IntelliTest explores your .NET code to generate test data and a suite of unit tests. For every statement in the code, a test input is generated that will execute that statement. A case analysis is performed for every conditional branch in the code. For example, if statements, assertions, and all operations that can throw exceptions are analyzed. This analysis is used to generate test data for a parameterized unit test for each of your methods, creating unit tests with high code coverage. Think of it as smart fuzz testing that trims down the inputs and test cases to what executes all your logic branches and checks for exceptions.
- mgh95 1y ago
  > Maybe you should have brought that up earlier instead of acting smug and burying the lede? It's also pretty telling that you didn't elaborate this further and kept your comment short. I thought people were generally competent within the areas they discuss and are aware of the tooling within their preferred ecosystem. I apologize if that is not the case.
  - VectorLock 1y ago
    Reshaper huh... "With AI Assistant, you can generate unit tests for C# methods." https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Generate_tests.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Generate_tests.html