Are automated tests worth it for indie hackers?
Hello fellow Indie, welcome to this week’s issue of The Indie Press. Sip your Monday morning coffee and get ready to indulge into some Indie News
Our story of the week raises this question:
Are automated tests worth it for indie hackers?
One of the best practices in software development is considered to be writing automated tests. I see some engineers are even fans of TTD(test-driven development), which basically means, writing tests first even before writing code!
Though I was never a big fan of tests, I can see how tests can help engineers to save countless debugging hours in certain situations. Especially if you work in a large team where you can’t effort to merge an intern’s code without validating it will not break the whole codebase! Besides, processes like TTD can help you better understand your structure, bring up edge cases, and make you think through.
But it slows down the shipping and iteration process and according to Maxime Dupré, it’s not worth it for indie hackers!
Do you agree with his stand? Let us know the comments 👇
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Facts or Nah?
AI has definitely set a new stage out there. OpenAI releases ChatGPT, Google launches Bard and Indies or Bootstrapped founders are launching…well… targets a niche calls OpenAI API **launches a product
I mean with all that’s going on, lots of old products are becoming replaceable thanks to the new wave of AI
What are your thoughts?
It be like that sometimes
Indie hacking is a never-ending cycle of:
I'm a genius! What am I even doing? I'm definitely a genius. Wait, nope. I have no idea what I'm doing
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