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AI Test Generation: Quality Beyond Coverage
AI test generation hits coverage easily. Quality (catching real bugs) is the harder bar.
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- 1The premise
- 2test generation
- 3quality
- 4mutation testing
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Section 1
The premise
AI test generation hits coverage; quality requires deliberate design beyond coverage.
What AI does well here
- Generate tests with AI then validate quality
- Run mutation testing to verify tests catch real bugs
- Maintain engineer authority on critical test logic
- Track real bug catch rate
What AI cannot do
- Trust coverage as quality signal
- Substitute AI tests for thinking about what to test
- Eliminate the need for human-designed tests
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