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The tool that tries to explain how your code works
Github continues to walk down the path of simplification of coding. Copilot extension was a drastic change in the efficiency (at least for me) and now the other vital aspect of the software engineering process would be handled. I’m talking about the documentation.
That’s where Copilot Labs comes in. Copilot Labs is a tool that can help you or someone else understand how your code works. It provides you with Machine Learning generated explanation just like this:
Recently I’ve been added to the group of testers for the Copilot project so I’ve decided to give it a go and ask it to explain a few of my coding snippets from previous tutorials.
Web Scraping
In the article above I’ve shared a link to the repository with a configurable script that helps me parse lots of sites and is a good template to start. Human explanation of the main part of code would be that it:
- Loads all the configuration variables
- Creates a Selenium driver
- Goes to the target page and scrapes data according to selectors
- Saves data
- Quits the driver
The explanation given by the machine wasn’t that cheerful:
I would’ve been a bad tester if I wouldn’t give it a second try. Copilot Labs allows you to change the start of the explanation so you can direct it a little. Here are the next few attempts at getting more human-readable descriptions:
