Benefits of automatic testing

After adding a new feature to your application, you want to know if it will work correctly, given all the possible interactions. You also don't want to break any other features with this new functionality and want to know if the code is easily understood by others, as well as being maintainable.

All of this can be tested manually. But as the project and code base grows over time, testing all these features manually can become repetitive and error-prone. This is where automatic testing comes in.

There has always been a great deal of controversy around automatic testing. Many people believe that testing is too expensive to create and maintain. This is indeed true when tests are created badly. But when automatic tests are created properly, it will absolutely lower the amount of time and costs compared to frequent manual testing or releasing poor-quality software. Using automatic testing, your project will benefit from the ability to release software...