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So we got these slash commands slash doc for example could be used to generate comments

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documentation for the selected code but slash tests is another interesting command which

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I want to explore here now because as you can also see here you can use this command

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to generate unit tests for the selected code and it turns out that AI is really good when

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it comes to generating unit tests now if I run slash tests here I could again add more

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information if I were looking for specific kinds of tests or if I only wanted to test

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something very specific but you can also just run it like this and let the AI figure out

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which tests to write and what's really convenient here is that it will then go ahead and show

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you which tests it wants to generate here and you see these are the unit tests it would

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suggest for this specific function and we could now accept this and it did actually

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add them in a new file a new file which I now have to save in a project like db backup

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test for example so it's also smart enough to understand that I probably don't want

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to add the unit tests in the same file as my main application code but that I instead

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want to have them in a separate file like this and that's there for another pretty

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useful feature because writing tests is important but can be annoying some developers absolutely

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don't want to do it and it turns out that AI is pretty good at that task because of

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course it got the application code as very useful context and therefore in many cases

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it's able to figure out and write decent tests so that you have all the tests without

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going through the effort of writing them manually