The other day I put an app in production with (gasp) no automated tests. I’m careful to say no automated tests, because of course I had been testing it manually throughout the ~12 hours it took me to write the initial version of the app. In lieu of tests, I made sure to log copious amounts of information, which I then collected from my deployed app into Papertrail. For a single day’s work this was
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