<ul><li>Testing can be painless and manageable by following simple principles like testing early and only testing once for each functionality.</li><li>Levels of testing include Unit tests, Component tests, Contract and Integration tests and Smoke tests.</li><li>Unit tests are for the smallest unit of logic and ensure that the logic behaves as expected given different inputs.</li><li>Component tests ensure that all functions can be chained together and validates how execution flows through the application.</li><li>Contract and Integration tests ensure that external dependencies adhere to the expected contracts and behavior.</li><li>Smoke tests help identify major issues that have been missed by previous levels of testing when an application is deployed.</li><li>Implementing the strangler pattern for updates helps streamline the migration of test suites.</li><li>Getting buy-in from a team and the business can help ease the transition and result in benefits like quicker feedback and more reliable software.</li></ul>

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