# Cover Pipeline for GitLab

Cover Pipeline for GitLab integrates the power of Diffblue Cover directly into your GitLab pipeline to autonomously write Java unit tests for your projects on merge requests.

* Automatically write a baseline unit test suite for your projects.
* Automatically write new unit tests for new code.
* Automatically update existing unit tests in your code.
* Automatically remove existing unit tests in your code when they’re no longer required.

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