Known and Unknowns: Testing AI Generated Code

Abstract
Let's face it AI-assisted coding is rapidly becoming the primary way applications are being written. The power of being able to write out a complicated application or feature with a just a few commands is something too alluring to pass up.

But between the imprecise nature of language and LLMs ability to "hallucinate", this creates many opportunities for bugs and unintended behavior to introduced. Just telling an AI coding agent to "write tests" isn't going to be enough to build confidence in the correctness of an application either.

In this presentation we are going to review three distinct phases to testing AI written code. The known knowns; using spec driven development to define the business meaningful behavior of your application. Known unknowns; using property-based testing to handle edge cases and avoid over fitting and unintended biases. And finally unknown unknowns, using static analysis and mutation testing to avoid introducing bugs you didn't think about.

AI-assisted coding is a rapidly evolving field, but this presentation should give you the framework and approach on how to have confidence when using AI to assist in writing applications.

Speaker
Billy Korando is a Java Developer Advocate with the Java Platform Group at Oracle. With over a decade of experience in Java, Billy brings a passion for helping developers reduce tedious work, such as project initiation, deployment, testing, and validation, through automation and adopting the latest features and tools in the Java ecosystem. Outside of work, Billy enjoys traveling, playing kickball, and cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs. Billy also co-organizes the Kansas City Java users group.

Meeting Details
We'll be meeting at Improving Enterprises, 5445 Legacy Dr 100, Plano, TX 75024

The pizza and networking start at 6:30pm and the meeting at 7pm. Come have a great evening of learning with your fellow local Java enthusiasts!

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