Add to Curriculum: Unit Testing

[AaronStPete]

If you want to solve a problem, you have to understand it first. Writing unit tests is a powerful way of ensuring that you really understand both what your code does but especially the problem you're trying to solve.

My favorite takeaways from my cohort were the habits I learned but there were so many more that I wish I would've been exposed to. I'm still struggling with writing my own unit tests because I didn't start with them.

Topics:

• What is a unit test
• Test driven development
• Preventing confusion in teams working on big projects by implementing safeguards

Potential assignments:

• write a unit test for a simple function
• purposefully break a test
• design an application around a series of unit tests
• hard mode: write a unit test for someone else's code