Vicious Cycle

Hello, loves! I feel that I’m in a bit of a hole and still digging. Let’s see how we might turn this around. We find ways to keep our oppressors off our backs. I’m finding tests to be difficult to write, difficult to get right, somewhat fragile, and not very focused. That being the case, like any reasonably lazy person, I tend not to write them. Like any reasonably decent programmer, I often get away with it … until things change. Then I find that I need to run the whole game to be sure that things are working. That slows me down at best, and it’s dangerous, in that I don’t do it after every little change and defects can lurk long enough to make them difficult to find. This is a vicious cycle. I don’t write tests, I add code, the code needs tests, it’s harder to test, I don’t write tests. I do not like this situation. It’s slowing me down, and it makes me feel squidgy because I know a better way and I’m not doing the best I know. What’s going on? Let’s think about some of the forces…