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Generating guidelines for specific tasks

Generating guidelines for specific tasks - Github Copilot Tutorial

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Generating guidelines for specific tasks

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- [Instructor] Generating guidelines for specific tasks is crucial when you want to define more than specific constraints. In this case, I want to do test-driven development and I want to implement TDD. And in these Copilot instructions, I'm going to say, "Be very strict with following TDD, including these steps right here." All right, so create a unit test first, then run the test, and make sure it fails. Right, that's very important: Execute the test suite to ensure that the new test fails. Implement the Function, and then we run the test suite. So, I think this is crucial. It allows the GitHub Copilot to try to follow the process. And now we're going to see how that is going to work. I'm going to go here to this validator. It sets certain classes and makes sure that these classes will have a call. And that call will allow it to do certain things. And we essentially want to implement the new one, and I will just come…

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