GitHub Copilot

Using GitHub Copilot has become a daily habit for my Selenium/java work. It's not just a fancy autocomplete anymore, the recent updates in have turned it into a proper coding partner. Having our automated test framework on GitHub makes the integration seamless. I use it mostly for boilerplate code, like generating those repetitive page object methods or writing snippets for our api tests. It's incredibly fast at picking up the patterns in the codebase, so it knows exactly how to name the variables and structure the tests without me having to explain it every time. The Copilot agent integration is the real game changer here. Unlike the standard suggestions, the agent can now look at my entire workspace and handle more complex tasks like refactoring an entire test suite or fixing a tricky race condition in our selenium scripts. I can just @workspace in the chat and ask it to find all tests that don't have proper teardown logic and it highlights them and offers a fix in seconds. It's also great for generating documentation for our test cases, which is something I used to spend way too much time on. I use copilot when I want to stay in the flow and write the code myself but with a lot of help. I use it for quick fixes and real-time suggestions, whereas I send the bigger, more time-consuming tasks over to other AI tools that I also use along with Copilot. Together, they make a powerful team. Copilot helps me with the logic and small details, and the other one handles the heavy lifting of building entire scenarios from scratch. It still has those moments where it suggests code that looks right but is actually slightly outdated it doesn't perfectly match our custom framework wrappers. Also, if I am working on a very large file, it can sometimes lose the context of what I was doing three hundred lines up. And just like with other tools, there's always that slight concern about it being a bit hallucinatory with library versions if it has not seen the latest updates yet. But honestly, for the speed and accuracy it provides in my daily Java development, it's hard to imagine going back to coding without it.