Using AI tooling for unit testing in JetBrains Rider
Introduction I used Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot in the last blog post to generate unit test code. Many developers use Visual Studio, but JetBrains Rider is also used by many. I use JetBrains Rider a lot, especially when working on my MacBook. In this blog post, I will show you what the new code-generation AI features (AI Assistant) of JetBrains Rider can do for you as a developer. I used the 2023.2 version on a MacBook Pro M1 for this post. The AI tooling is still in preview and not available to the general public. The pricing of the AI plugin is also not known at this time. Example The example for this blog post is the same as the example for the blog post about Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot. To refresh your memory, or if you have not read the previous blog post, here is a small summary of our test case. For this article, I use a probably well-known example of an order with orderlineitems. Just as in the previous blog post, I asked the AI tooling to generate a property to calc