"value":"\n <p>Before fixing <a href=\"\/daily\/2024\/01\/30\/tdd-doesnt-mean-you-know-everything-upfront\">yesterday's bug<\/a>, because I'd written automated tests, I ran them to ensure they were all passing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then, I was able to focus solely on adding the new use case - starting with a failing test to replicate the issue and then getting it to pass.<\/p>\n\n<p>Because it was already tested, I didn't need to worry about breaking any other functionality and introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the new test was passing, I could run the whole test suite and ensure they still passed and things continued to work.<\/p>\n\n<p>Without the tests, I'd either need to check everything else manually (which takes time) or worry that something could potentially be broken.<\/p>\n\n<p>Having tests meant I could be confident that the new and existing functionality worked.<\/p>\n\n ",
"processed":"\n <p>Before fixing <a href=\"http:\/\/default\/daily\/2024\/01\/30\/tdd-doesnt-mean-you-know-everything-upfront\">yesterday's bug<\/a>, because I'd written automated tests, I ran them to ensure they were all passing.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then, I was able to focus solely on adding the new use case - starting with a failing test to replicate the issue and then getting it to pass.<\/p>\n\n<p>Because it was already tested, I didn't need to worry about breaking any other functionality and introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the new test was passing, I could run the whole test suite and ensure they still passed and things continued to work.<\/p>\n\n<p>Without the tests, I'd either need to check everything else manually (which takes time) or worry that something could potentially be broken.<\/p>\n\n<p>Having tests meant I could be confident that the new and existing functionality worked.<\/p>\n\n ",