Writing The Perfect Tests for your Application

We, as humans, are all looking for perfection. Some are trying to capture the perfect sunset, some are trying to ride the perfect wave and Software Engineers are looking for perfection in their code.

We want to write clean, maintainable code, with as little fragility as possible, and to achieve this most of the time the correct approach is with lots and lots of tests.

I wrote about the 5 types of testing practices you need in your application, but in this article, I want to talk about the app-saving tests, that can help you save time, money, and stress.

And it’s important our code works in as different situations as possible. Testing just the happy path is not enough, we have to add tests for boundary situations and errors.

And we want to write a simple function that adds +1 to every number of the array without using any array build-in functions like map or reduce

If you start with a simple for loop from 0 to 5, iterate through the array, and add 1 to each value, we can create a boundary test where instead of passing a 5-value array we will pass a 6-value array or an empty array.

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