Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Testing software is hard. Maintaining a fast, comprehensible, and meaningful test suite that can grow alongside an application for years is really hard.

In our experience working with dozens of teams, we’ve run into a bunch of the same testing problems over and over again. This talk is an effort to analyze the most common reasons that teams become disillusioned with their tests, and offer some targeted advice to help teams prevent these problems from ever materiaizing by tweaking their tools, workflow, and perspective.

More here: blog.testdouble.com/talks/2015-11-16-how-to-stop-hating-your-tests