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> without the need to execute the whole call hierarchy. (e.g. an HTTP endpoint)... > “Evaluate Expression” was quite useful in exploring new codebases and checking return values of my own functions as a sanity test.

Keep pulling on this thread... pretty soon you'll be writing unit tests!

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I just mentioned this in another response but will say this again, generating junit test cases is what we started doing in the first place.

We have still have that in the plugin. If you are interested I can share a custom build with that enabled for you to try it out. Just send me an email or ping us on the discord group.

We also have a boilerplate test case generator which uses dummy values, and this one you can use even without using the java agent. Its the first tab you will see in the plugin window after installing.

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