When you're a team of one, shipping features always wins over writing tests. There's always another bug to fix, another feature to build, another deadline to hit. Testing is the thing you'll “get to later.”
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You have a backlog full of features, a list of bugs from users, and a deadline that was yesterday. Something has to give, and it's always the tests.
It's not that you don't understand the value. You know tests catch regressions. You know they make refactoring safer. You know they save time in the long run. But “the long run” doesn't ship features this week.
So you skip them. Again. And every time you skip, the gap between where you are and where you should be gets wider.
There's no QA team. No code review from a colleague. No one to catch what you missed. Tests are the safety net that would catch regressions before your users do.
But writing those tests means doubling your workload. Every function you write needs a test. Every edge case needs coverage. Every API route needs mocking. When you're the only person on the project, that overhead is brutal.
You end up relying on manual testing: clicking through the app, checking the happy path, hoping nothing breaks in production. It works until it doesn't.
Even if you decide to start testing today, there's a wall of setup before you write your first assertion. Which test runner? How do you configure it? What about path aliases, TypeScript, JSX transforms?
Then there's the mocking layer. Database connections, API clients, authentication providers, environment variables. Each one needs its own setup. Each one is a rabbit hole.
By the time you have a working test config, you've burned a full day and written zero tests. That's a day you could have spent on features your users actually asked for.
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