brooklinmyers

It's not necessary for everything perhaps, but the feedback of an automated test is often faster than manual testing. So it ends up saving time.

I joined a team recently without a solid test suite or testing practices. Really excited to (gently) spread the gospel of TDD (joking). I have the same thought process though, without tests to back me up I feel exposed.

Less opinionated/experienced with strong type systems though, I do appreciate the flexibility of being able to hack things together to see if they work - then improving upon the solution. strong types seem to make that harder.