You Don't Have Time Not to Test

You Don’t Have Time Not to Test Doug Donohoe · Follow 11 min read · 2 days ago 2 days ago -- Listen Share Testing isn’t a sunk cost. It’s a compounding return that shapes better code and ultimately accelerates your team. That feeling when your tests are passing | Credit: Author “We don’t have time to test,” stated the principal engineer matter-of-factly, with an expression that left no room for debate. It was a proclamation of absolute truth like “the sun always rises in the east” or “you always find the lost thing in the last place you look.” A startup fact-of-life, or so it seems. This was in response to my candid observation that test coverage was low, existing tests didn’t always run locally for mysterious reasons, integration tests were non-existent, and pull requests could merge without passing the few tests that did exist. I was shocked into silence. This anti-testing sentiment wasn’t new to me, but it still astonished me to hear it said so forthrightly. Like getting insult ... Read full article.