Unit testing in JavaScript Part 1 - Why unit testing?

Today, we are going to start exploring unit testing in JavaScript.

I think of Unit testing as a software development technique where you break your software up into small, isolated units and write automated tests that ensure that each unit works as expected.

My main motivation for doing unit testing is to keep complexity from overwhelming me. And that is what we're going to explore in this first video - we're going to look at how a new piece of code always starts out simple but very quickly gets too much to keep all in our heads.

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