Journey to TDD - Adjustment

If you found this article and want to start at the beginning, this series starts here.

I wrote that my attitude towards bugs in software development was that bugs were an “unavoidable” part of the industry.

From interviewing, I had a common question: “How would you test this?” and each time, I looked at the interviewer and flatly said:

I would manually test it.

Because, in my heart and experience, that’s what works and how it’s always happened.

Fortunately, I never got those jobs because looking back, I know I would not have done well. Either the company would have imploded or I would have from all the manual testing.

While I was attending local meet-ups to “network” - what I ended up doing was finding great mentors who would explain to me modern software practices.

One of these meet-ups was the Code Retreat and it changed how I thought about testing and software development.