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Software Testing with Generative AI
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Software Testing with Generative AI

by Mark Winteringham
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 57m
English
Manning Publications
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4 AI-assisted testing for developers

This chapter covers

  • Developing unit tests and production code with GitHub Copilot
  • Developing unit tests and production code with ChatGPT

According to a poll on dev ecosystems conducted by JetBrains in 2022, 81% of respondents have a developer-to-QA ratio greater than one to one. Forty percent reported that they had “less than 1 QA per 10 developers,” and only 1% reported that they had “more QAs than developers” (see www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/testing.)

Understanding and building in quality is essential to delivering value to our users, yet the ratio between development and testing is nearly always imbalanced, and this is so for many reasons. Some organizational leaders choose to educate developers ...

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