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Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, 3rd Edition
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Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, 3rd Edition

by Jeff Langr
November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 12m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Providing Examples to ChatGPT

Incrementally test driving small, unit behaviors into a system remains the best choice for humans. For an LLM, maybe not.

I first tried getting ChatGPT to consume all my requirements for the name normalizer at once. The code was a mess, and it didn’t work. I took the next-smaller step, which was to first give it a subset containing the four core cases it needed to cover. I helped ChatGPT focus on what I believe to be a proper design—one that, in general, is based on small classes and small methods. With such an improved design, I believe ChatGPT had a much better chance to correctly generate new increments.

One of the best ways to get good results from an LLM is to provide examples in your prompts. I followed that ...

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