Jon really helped me understand what I should be testing when I didn't know where to start. My team started from zero TDD and my successes in it have inspired the rest of the team to start.
A robust suite of unit tests acts as a safety harness, giving you courage to make bold changes. But there’s an art to making tests that give you useful information, while keeping the tests themselves readable & maintainable.
Unit tests written after production code are hard to write, and may only confirm your biases. Test-Driven Development shapes production code in response to tests, in an evolutionary manner. The secret sauce? Continuous Refactoring.
We can’t just bang code together and expect it to be testable. Testability must be designed in. That design brings other benefits, making it easier to modify the code. The ultimate goal? Drive down your cost of change.