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Before fixing yesterday's bug<\/a>, because I'd written automated tests, I ran them to ensure they were all passing.<\/p>\n\n

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

Because it was already tested, I didn't need to worry about breaking any other functionality and introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n

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

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

Having tests meant I could be confident that the new and existing functionality worked.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Before fixing yesterday's bug<\/a>, because I'd written automated tests, I ran them to ensure they were all passing.<\/p>\n\n

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

Because it was already tested, I didn't need to worry about breaking any other functionality and introducing regressions.<\/p>\n\n

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

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

Having tests meant I could be confident that the new and existing functionality worked.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "abcc748af8e6e888fd2ed7c8b02d7911", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }