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You typically don't feel the pain of not having tests until your app starts to get big and/or starts to have lots of developers. That simple assert :success cou
by sbooks 11y ago
You typically don't feel the pain of not having tests until your app starts to get big and/or starts to have lots of developers. That simple assert :success could catch a regression because you were using meta search while on rails 3 and now it doesn't work on rails 4. You also don't feel the pain of end-to-end testing until you rely on them too much and they are fickle, and hard to maintain.
- user_0001 11y agoexactly and as a freelancer working on projects that may / may not succeed to that point, most tests are not required. Unless the projects specifically asks for them, that the client foresees a future for the project and if it is successful would appreciate the tests and thus will pay more for them. At the end of the day, as a freelancer, in two years time IF the project takes off, chances are you are not working on it
- sbooks 11y agoThen say that in the post. The post isn't giving the impression that these types of tests might be valuable at one point.