PoniCode : My feedback and a mixed overall feeling about the tool.

My feedback from testing the Ponicode IA powered test generation tool. Recently, the company PoniCode has attracted the attention of some investors and consequently the attention of media and the developers from the tooling ecosystem / Software Craftmanship. As you may know, I am a modest Software Craftsman practicer and I created of some test generation and quality tools in my career.

I decided to give a shot and see whether the Ponicode product deserves praise.

About the Ponicode Company

To present the company, I extracted the following quote from their website :

The creation of Ponicode is the vision of a great company which is loved by its users and its developers.

Our ambition is plain, to unleash the creativity of millions of developers and allow them to imagine the code of tomorrow.

Ponicode raises €3 million in seed funding to continue developing Artificial Intelligence for improved code quality

More empirically, the company has developed a tool which aims to automate the generation of unit tests (more precisely non-regression and boundary tests), and which is supposed to use artificial intelligence to achieve these goals.