Journey to TDD - Seemingly Simple Leading to Immense Dread

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That error feeling when making an calculation mistake was pure dread. I never want to feel that. ever. again.

I got into using Selenium hard. Making a basic test to first test the error I created.

The amount of tinkering I had to do was enormous for such a simple thing: just run through the checkout and validate costs.

The temptation to just fall back onto manual testing is great, especially when something so seemingly simple and would take at most one minute to do each time.

That’s exactly the trap I fell into the first time - “seemingly simple” lead to immense dread.

If I felt that way the first time, the amount of dread I would feel the next time would be at least twice, or more! 😱

I had to find a way to start replicating stakeholder actions