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Re:Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast by renegade-otter on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:26PM (#36915783)
My personal projects generally have a better test suite than what I do for work. First of all, I do it at my own pace, but more importantly - it makes the whole thing possible, as you said.

The nature of a personal project is such that I may not come back to it for months, sometimes even years. The first thing I always do is run the test suite. It's my lodestar. It helps me understand what state the project is in so I can confidently pick up where I had left it.

It is also my requirements documentation - as code.

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Re:Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast by latchkey on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:31PM (#36915832)
People are often given timelines at work that don't include testing. As a believer in agile, I generally push back hard to include testing.

I'd rather dole out incomplete MVP's with tests and fewer features than to skip tests entirely just to hit crazy timelines with a buggy product. Experience says this almost always has positive long term results.

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Re:Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast by Jenk on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:22AM (#36918107)
just don't segregate testing, it is integral to the production of quality software and therefore should be considered the same as, say, attempting to skip using a keyboard in an attempt to save time.
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