From the course: Accelerating Laravel API Development with AI: From Specification to Testing

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Writing integration and feature tests

Writing integration and feature tests

- [Instructor] In software development, regressions occur when changes to code introduce bugs and functionality that previously worked correctly. Preventing these regressions is one of the most important goals of a robust automated testing strategy. This is the test class for the register endpoint, and there are four methods in here. Give us one more space to work, and these methods are the actual tests. This one has two assertions, two assertions, two assertions, and three assertions in this one. Copilot wrote tests for successful registration, registration in missing fields, duplicate email, and with weak password. AI has a bias toward happy path testing. The existing tests cover the expected use cases for the register endpoint. AI also tends towards completing your request. Of course, if I ask AI about what other tests should I have for the register endpoint, especially tests for things a user might do that are problematic. well, that's a fun response that I haven't seen before…

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