From 341021e774b01de8f5c2d87e9d1bf76c1c44e13a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 14:13:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] daily-email: add 2023-10-28 Can you move faster without tests? --- src/content/daily-email/2023-10-28.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/daily-email/2023-10-28.md diff --git a/src/content/daily-email/2023-10-28.md b/src/content/daily-email/2023-10-28.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fcb0c6ade --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/daily-email/2023-10-28.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: > + Can you move faster without tests? +pubDate: 2023-10-28 +permalink: > + archive/2023/10/28/can-you-move-faster-without-tests +tags: + - software-development + - automated-testing + - test-driven-development +--- + +If you don't write automated tests or do test-driven development, you might move quickly to begin with - writing code and doing small amounts of manual testing. + +But, once you start changing the code to add new features or fix bugs, things will begin to slow down. + +You'll have more to test and need to ensure you don't break the existing functionality as well as your new code works. + +Whilst it may be faster initially, skipping tests will cause problems later.