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allcenturyyesterday at 3:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Manual testing as the first step… not very productive imo.

Outside in testing is great but I typically do automated outside in testing and only manual at the end. The loop process of testing needs to be repeatable and fast, manual is too slow


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simonwyesterday at 3:12 PM

Yeah that's fair, the manual testing doesn't have to sequentially go first - but it does have to get done.

I've lost count of the number of times I've skipped it because the automated test passed and then found there was some dumb but obvious bug that I missed, instantly exposed when I actually exercised the feature myself.

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