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Discussion on: When can you safely make an assumption when developing anything?

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Jackson Elfers • Edited

It's probably better to never trust yourself completely. Usually for me that's when I fall on my face. In the industrial industry we safe guard equipment for the "safety" of both personnel and machinery. I tend to think of automated testing working in a similar way. Sometimes the human in me isn't thinking clearly and the test catches my mistake. Things that are depended upon by multiple facets tend to be top priority for testing like backend api's routes etc.