I’ve recently started working on a non-trivially distributed system and boy this rings true for me! We’ve got limited facility for integration testing, so I’ve become increasingly fanatical about testing every piece I can in each component. Every bug I catch locally is a bug I don’t have to surface out in the cluster, and the feedback loop is much tighter.
“Test first” still feels like a bridge to far to me (my programming is usually more exploratory than that), but with the mis en place framework it’s easier to see why people might like it so much.
“Test first” still feels like a bridge to far to me (my programming is usually more exploratory than that), but with the mis en place framework it’s easier to see why people might like it so much.