We all have that ideal world where we TDD-all-the-things and our code is at its highest quality. We know tests allow us to move faster, avoid regressions and make the world a better place.

But writing tests is cumbersome. And tiring. And you hate it. It’s not that you don’t believe in code quality, it’s just that all that overhead all the time is really annoying. We’re just trying to move fast here, really. We have a product to build, you know.

It doesn’t have to be that bad. In this talk, we’ll go over what makes writing tests so difficult, what’s the process of writing good tests effectively, and some low levels techniques that will rock your tests world (not really, but they’re useful).