Alex MortonThis post was originally published on December 7, 2020 on my blog.
As I'm going through the motions of improving my coding skills each day, there's something that's always been on the periphery of my mind: testing.
Any job description throws it in. Discussions with well-meaning mentors and acquaintances drop the innocent assumption that you're correctly testing the code you run - you know, so that 'your linters dont' yell at you!'
But then I'm like, 'Whaaaaat?'
I'm not sure if I need to be testing my own personal projects or not, but I feel like it's probably a good thing to learn...eventually.
In the meantime, I found this great article, and it helped me start to at least make a little bit of sense of it all.
Any suggestions/recommendations/perspectives for a newbie tester are welcome!
P.S. I'm searching for my next role as a Front-End Web Developer! If you have any leads, please let me know!
My current tech stack: JavaScript ES6, React/Hooks, Redux, Firebase Firestore, Firebase Authentication, HTML/CSS, Git
