Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

Test automation and the Definition of Done (DoD)

Test automation is of critical importance. Tests are only valuable if you can automate their execution. Having to manually execute tests costs way too much time and effort. This is why you should write automated test suites during the development of your systems and not afterward. An automated test suite is a set of tests that you can execute automatically as often as you want (for example, with every build of the application).

To make this possible, your development time estimates should always take testing into account. Having a clear Definition of Done (DoD) is important as it will list everything that should be accounted for when estimating the time required to implement some feature requests ...