Created Date: 2023-11-20
Priority: medium
Build an automated test suite is good and gives you confidence. Writing the tests yourself deepens your knowledge on a subject. It forces you to look at the boundaries of the subject and to think about what is important and what should be considered background information. Assessing yourself for this also shows you progress.
Core Concepts
- self-assessment
- automated testing creates space to keep moving
- broadens subject understanding
- writing tests is learning
- gives direction to the self-direction
- can flip learning by creating the test first
- tests are a form of collaboration with mentors