Front-end Engineer and Tester. I have a course at https://learn.webdriver.io and I do free coding tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/medigerati/
" If I hadn’t written a unit test to test for this scenario, it would have been missed."
That line really stands out to me. I think it's easy to see "unit testing" as just another item on your checklist of things to do, but really we need to focus on the value it provides: catching errors that we'd otherwise miss with our manual checks.
Unit testing really is great at checking our code against a variety of data points, something difficult to do with just manual checks.
Glad you saw the light :)
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" If I hadn’t written a unit test to test for this scenario, it would have been missed."
That line really stands out to me. I think it's easy to see "unit testing" as just another item on your checklist of things to do, but really we need to focus on the value it provides: catching errors that we'd otherwise miss with our manual checks.
Unit testing really is great at checking our code against a variety of data points, something difficult to do with just manual checks.
Glad you saw the light :)