3 years ago

My first job out of college was for a large software company. We had major annual releases of our flagship product and minor releases every month or so.

You aren’t going to be shipping an updated version of your product that has a year’s worth of changes in it anymore.

To instill confidence both internally and externally to your organization, you must build up a suite of automated tests that run whenever a change is made.

You can and should build your back-end functionality first so you can assemble automated tests and verify it works as expected.