From “Does It Work?” to “Will It Break?”: My Evolution in Software TestingIf I’m being honest, for the first couple of years of my computer science degree, “testing” meant running my code, seeing if it worked, and if it didn’t, throwing console.log statements everywhere until it did. It wasn’t until I was put on a team for a major project that I realized how unsustainable that was. A feature I added would break something my teammate wrote, and we’d spend hours trying to figure out why. This f... Read article

My App Was Working, But It Was Slow: A Student’s Guide to Web PerformanceI finally deployed the first version of my portfolio project. All the features worked, the code was (mostly) clean, and I was proud of it. I sent the link to a few friends, and the first piece of feedback I got wasn’t about the features—it was, “Whoa, this takes a while to load.” It was a classic student developer mistake. I had focused so much on making it work that I never stopped to think about making it fast. This se... Read article