AI is rapidly transforming software development, with AI-coding assistants now commonplace, offering everything from autocompletion to generating substantial code blocks. A particularly enticing application is the automatic generation of tests — unit, integration and end-to-end.
The prospect of AI churning out tests, boosting coverage metrics and freeing developers from the often-tedious task of test creation sounds like a direct route to faster feedback and conquering the backlog of untested code. But is this powerful new capability a…
