If you don’t test it, you’re just hoping it works.

Testing is not something extra. It’s not a bonus.
👉 Testing is an important part of the work.

When you write a web application without tests, you can’t be confident that it works:
🚩You’re hoping that it works.
🚩You’re hoping nothing breaks.
🚩You’re hoping future changes won’t collapse it like a house of cards.

Hope is not a strategy.

Testing is an inherent part of development. Not something you “add later if there’s time.”
✅ It should be part of your estimates.
✅ It should be part of your definition of done.
✅ It should be part of your process from day one.

When you skip tests to “save time,” you’re borrowing time you’ll have to pay back, with interest, when something breaks, there is a reason it’s called technical *debt*.

❌ If you finished a feature but didn’t write tests, you didn’t finish the feature.
❌ If you fixed a bug but didn’t write a regression test, you didn’t fix the bug.

Some testing advice?
🔹 Start small: For legacy code, begin by testing new features. Some coverage is better than none.
🔹 Automate everything: Run your tests automatically on every push. Let your CICD pipeline catch the mistakes before you do.
🔹 Make tests mandatory: No untested code should pass code review.
🔹 Fix flaky tests fast: Flaky tests break trust. Treat them like production bugs.
🔹 Write tests first (when you can): Try Test-Driven Development (TDD), it helps you think before you code.
🔹 Make sure tests fail loudly: If tests don’t fail when something is wrong, they don’t protect you.
🔹 Write clean, maintainable tests: Tests are first-class code. They document your system.
🔹Keep tests simple: Don’t over-engineer your tests. Keep them small, fast, focused, and readable.

If it’s not tested, it’s not finished. You wouldn’t fly a plane that was built on hope, so don’t ship code that is.