What is Unit Testing & Why You Need to Lean It ⁉️

Unit testing is the practice of writing code to test your code and then run those tests in an automated fashion. ✅

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Here is an example. 👨🏻‍💻

Imagine you have this function somewhere in your code.
It’s a basic calculate function that takes an input and depending on some conditions, it returns different values.

public float CalculateTax(int input) 
{
    if (x) return ...;
    if (y) return ...;
    return ...;
}

If you want to test this function manually :

1️⃣ You have to run your application
2️⃣ Perhaps you have to login
3️⃣ Maybe do a few clicks here
4️⃣ There to get to a page where this function is used.
5️⃣ You have to fill out a form
6️⃣ Submit it
7️⃣ Verify if this function returned the right result.

And then you have to repeat all these steps, each time using different values in your form. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Manual testing is expensive 💸

As you can see, this is very time-consuming. ⌛️

This workflow to test this function may take several minutes every time❗️

Now to make matters worse, this is not the only function in your application. 🌍

In a real application, you have tens or hundreds of functions like this ❗️

As your application grows in size and complexity, the time required to manually test all the different bits and pieces increases exponentially. ⏱

So, that’s why we use Automated Testing. ♻️

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