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Nate Liu

This is a great point. I like the easy to manually verify part so such a tiny part of code change in the vast amount of legacy code base.

In such case, what I will do is to make sure the how-to-manually-test-my-new-tiny-change is documented with code base, so QA and whoever touching this part knows what's matter/new and how the results could be verified as expected.

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Tyler Hawkins

Absolutely. I'm a big fan of using merge request templates to provide additional context for other developers during code reviews, and one item I always include is a test plan for how to manually verify the change. These kinds of checklists are super useful!

More on that here: dev.to/thawkin3/managing-complexit...