Software Testing Assistance with GitHub Copilot AI

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Software Testing Assistance with GitHub Copilot AI. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Discover how to leverage AI, specifically GitHub Copilot, to enhance automated testing in your software development process. Instructor Gary Kovar demonstrates how to write, refactor, and generate tests efficiently, ensuring code quality and stability. Gary starts by exploring the capabilities of Copilot, the principles of automated testing, and how AI can significantly bolster your test coverage and code quality. Learn to configure a test suite, identify testable code, and generate meaningful tests with ease. Practical sessions on refactoring with tests ensure you add a layer of safety to your development process. Upon completing this course, you’ll be ready to use GitHub Copilot to generate automated tests from existing code and create new code after writing tests.

See the readme file in the main branch for updated instructions and information.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Instructor

Gary Kovar

Senior Back-End Developer and Software Engineer

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