Testing your Code

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My journey as a software engineer continues on after going through Flatiron Software Engineering Bootcamp and learning how to deploy fantastic web app, but a question remained how can I elevate my software engineering game? How can I write better, clearer, and more effective code? The answer was testing, therefore I dove myself into learning a how to test my code and Test Driven Development (TDD).

What testing has done for me?

Testing is making me a better coder by making me battle my worst enemy, Myself and the bugs in my code. By doing so I have discover two things:

• I developed a deeper understanding of my code and its behavior.
• I discover my coding style and my good and bad habits, specially my bad habits, making me to focus on correcting them and learning new ways to elevate my code.
• I made me a more productive developer since it helps me save a lot of time because it makes it easier to detect bugs and anomalies earlier and in smaller chunks of code that are easy to fix and debug.
• I makes me an avid learner because it expose me to different kinds of bugs helping me te learn techniches to fix them and avoid repeating them.

Conclusion

Testing although at times taken for granted, it is a really important part of the development process. Testing is a habit that is going to help you built your development career, since you learn so much from it even when you feel you are not.