Automated software testing

 πŸ’₯ Developing automated tests πŸ§ͺ for your code can be πŸ•° time consuming but its worth it knowing that future features or code refactoring will not break your work and give unnecessary ❌️ errors/headaches for the users.

Spent 30 mins developing a new software feature and 2 hours writing a test for it. It was worth it to discover and fix a 🐞 bug. As bonus, I learnt some techniques to make them run 70% faster πŸš€.


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