If you’re working on something that serves APIs to a web or mobile frontend how easy is it for you to run a quick end to end test? This could be to check your change is working, or to run a request with some extra debugging or breakpoints when investigating a bug.

Large apps can be complicated to get working locally. You might need to run several services with the correct configuration, feature flags, etc. to be able to test the code. If you’ve mobile apps in the mix then you will need XCode and/or Android Studio working with all the configuration for that. Setting this up is a good way of testing how well everything is documented and how easy a new developer could get going with a particular part of the stack!

If you do take the time to set this up then you can test end to end locally and reduce the time it takes to check a fix or a new feature. If you’re doing this regularly the investment in getting it setup quickly pays off.