Years ago, when I was enrolled in my first OOP course in community college, I distinctly remember that as my programs grew I found myself being less productive over longer periods of time. It wasn't obvious at the time, but I now know it was largely due to the fact that my code had no tests. I was making changes to various classes so that I could implement the next spec in the assignment, but was not taking into account the various places those code changes would affect. This lead me to throwing a lot of time away by chasing down bugs in parts of my code that were previously working just fine.
The solution? Unit testing! Sadly none of these beginner courses I was taking covered unit testing, and, now that I think about it, it's a bit mind-boggling how little testing was covered in any programming courses I have taken over the years...
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Within my local tech community, that is one of the most repeated limits. It doesn't matter if someone has a university, boot camp, or is self-taught background; testing is barely covered. I hope in the future this gets better as the industry demands this skill.
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Years ago, when I was enrolled in my first OOP course in community college, I distinctly remember that as my programs grew I found myself being less productive over longer periods of time. It wasn't obvious at the time, but I now know it was largely due to the fact that my code had no tests. I was making changes to various classes so that I could implement the next spec in the assignment, but was not taking into account the various places those code changes would affect. This lead me to throwing a lot of time away by chasing down bugs in parts of my code that were previously working just fine.
The solution? Unit testing! Sadly none of these beginner courses I was taking covered unit testing, and, now that I think about it, it's a bit mind-boggling how little testing was covered in any programming courses I have taken over the years...
Within my local tech community, that is one of the most repeated limits. It doesn't matter if someone has a university, boot camp, or is self-taught background; testing is barely covered. I hope in the future this gets better as the industry demands this skill.