Why Are We Writing Tests Again?

Brian Jenney
4 min readMay 4, 2021
writing unit tests for software applications

Around 6 months ago our team’s test coverage was pretty dismal, hovering somewhere around 0% for most of our front end applications… yeah, we know. The team had recently switched to using ReactJS, was rapidly expanding and fighting against tight deadlines. Testing was the first thing to go. I mean we have a QA team right?

Fast forward to now and our test coverage has skyrocketed to around 20% per…

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Brian Jenney

full-stackish developer, late bloomer coder and power google user and owner of Parsity.io