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1.11Key Takeaways
- Treat your prompt as a test specification document, not a casual request
- The five elements (Context, Artifact, Constraints, Coverage Goals, Output Format) form a complete test generation specification
- Missing any single element degrades output quality significantly
- Paste artifacts directly rather than describing them
- Include 2-3 existing tests as a style reference
- Explicitly request negative cases, boundary values, and auth scenarios
- Iterate on your prompts and save refined versions as templates
- Generate in batches of 10-20 tests, not 100 at once