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No-one is paying us to...

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+title: No-one is paying us to...
+date: 2025-03-19
+permalink: daily/2025/03/19/effective
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - automated-testing
+  - test-driven-development
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  What are people not paying you for that you need to do to work effectively?
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+A great quote I recently heard whilst watching a conference talk was "No-one is paying us to do _something_, but we need to do it to work effectively".
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+This talk was about decoupling, but the same quote could be re-used for various topics.
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+A common one is automated tests and test-driven development.
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+[Tests aren't a line item][0] that should be billed for separately and clients and customers just want their software to work.
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+Generally, they aren't concerned that there are automated tests or whether the tests were written before the code.
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+If I need to give an estimate, I always include time to write automated tests.
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+It's part of my software development process.
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+Whether people know they're paying for me to write automated tests as part or not, I can work more effectively when I have tests and am doing test-driven development.
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+Both when writing the code, but also if it needs to be [refactored or changed in the future][1].
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/02/23/line-item
+[1]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/10/20/test-then-refactor