@floppy

Ya, you have to push through this discomfort (which means learning how to use the test framework efficiently) and soon it becomes a huge and fast gratification to see all the green checkmarks.

Regarding instant gratefication - nothing came close for me to writing end to end tests with Cypress. Seeing how the web app is running in front of me and all parts behave as expect is the true nerd porn. ;)

@floppy

Sounds like there is some 'disbelief' in you. ^^

Dunno how to experience the value of testing when exploring it alone. I had a really great teacher and team that showed me why this is a good thing + how to do it.

Most influental in the long run was the realization that changes in a sufficiently large system become absolute nightmares without good test coverage. Which in turn means that people will go pretty far to avoid these nightmares. Which causes afditional side effects. And so on