Developing a working piece of software is difficult. Just like building an airplane, it requires talented people, working components, and a testing framework. No plane leaves the hangar before everything is ready, checked, and double-checked.
At JetBrains, we adopt the same philosophy for building our software. Vigorous testing helps us discover bugs and problems before the final product takes off. Just like building a plane, software development is a process that consists of multiple stages. Although the authors of this post are not aerospace engineers, we will use simplified aircraft analog
