Testing, testing, and more testing
In past chapters, we've stressed the importance of testing your code, but an equally important consideration is to structure your development processes around the ideas of testing in order to provide stable products that are user experience (UX)-friendly and can handle edge cases.
In our previous example, we conveniently left out the importance of testing in order to illustrate the core functionality of the platform, but it should not be ignored. Before we end this chapter, let's take a look at the TDD process just so we can ensure we're keeping this key component top of mind while we develop our automated solutions.
Creating specific tests
Developers should create specific unit tests to verify the functionality of individual features and pieces of functionality. We must first ensure that the test is valid and compiles before we can successfully execute the test. During initial development, and even outside of it, the unit...