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Testing The Waters

Yechiel Kalmenson on June 04, 2017

A recent bootcamp grad takes on testing. As mentioned in my latest post, I recently graduated Flatiron School’s Web Developer bootcamp. ...
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Jess Lee

This is really helpful. I went through a bootcamp as well and testing wasn't even brought up in class. It was our 'winter break' homework assignment, but they never reviewed the homework assignments. Such a crucial part of building apps.

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Yechiel Kalmenson

Exactly!
I have nothing but praise for Flatiron's curriculum, but if there was one thing I'd change/add it would be tests.

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Ben Halpern

As you become more experienced, tests move from being this abstract best practice to something you would be terrified to scale up without.