I've been thinking about this a lot recently! Our tests take a bit of time to run and often I will switch to working on another story. I'm not so sure that is the best option however. It's context switching at its worst. I get maybe 15 minutes to work on a new story and if the tests fail, then I have to decide if I want to switch back to the original story or hope that I will remember what I need to do later. It's not a great system.
Sometimes I go and read through Slack or email (or dev.to 😀), but then I don't feel like I am giving my full attention to any of those things either.
I think the best option for me would be to find some clerical or smaller tasks that I can work on between tests, that I could just pick up and put down while they are running.
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I've been thinking about this a lot recently! Our tests take a bit of time to run and often I will switch to working on another story. I'm not so sure that is the best option however. It's context switching at its worst. I get maybe 15 minutes to work on a new story and if the tests fail, then I have to decide if I want to switch back to the original story or hope that I will remember what I need to do later. It's not a great system.
Sometimes I go and read through Slack or email (or dev.to 😀), but then I don't feel like I am giving my full attention to any of those things either.
I think the best option for me would be to find some clerical or smaller tasks that I can work on between tests, that I could just pick up and put down while they are running.