Benefits of testing

Making testing part of our development process comes with a lot of benefits in every layer of our project. Before we start writing code to test our application, let's review the benefits that good testing brings to:

• The development team
• The project
• The organization
• The users

For the development team

If you work in a team with multiple members, you might have experienced that bad moment when a member pushes some changes and the application does not work as expected. Not only that, if the team does not have a mechanism to avoid changes that can break, someone else's code might cause conflict and decrease the quality of our applications.

Applying testing enables a mechanism that helps us avoid...