Hacker News with Generative AI: Unit Testing

Empirical Study of Test Generation with LLM's (arxiv.org)
Unit testing is an essential activity in software development for verifying the correctness of software components.

Software Development, Unit Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Research

40 points by nickpsecurity 21 days ago | 36 comments

Writing efficient unit tests in Java (qodo.ai)
Unit testing is like the essential vegetable on a developer’s plate—crucial for a healthy codebase, yet often pushed aside. However, robust Java applications consistently share one common trait: comprehensive test suites that catch bugs before they ever reach production.

Java, Unit Testing, Software Development

5 points by timbilt 57 days ago | 0 comments

Unit Testing Numerical Routines (buchanan.one)
As a prudent programmer, you probably do not consider your code finished until it has passed a rigorous set of unit tests. However, numerical routines such as this one present difficulties for unit testing. How can you be confident the function is correct in general? What if you don't know the expected output? What if the underlying algorithm changes?

Software, Programming, Unit Testing, Numerical Analysis

75 points by boscillator 67 days ago | 42 comments

Unit tests as documentation (thecoder.cafe)
Hello! Let’s continue our series on unit tests by discussing their relation with documentation.