The assert is one of the most important, indispensable, underused devices in a programmer’s toolkit.

One thing that I’ve found is that I can’t live without is the assert mechanism. In fact, it’s the first thing I wrote in my home codebase… so I’ve decided to compile a centralized synopsis to help give readers a detailed overview.

Okay so if you’re like me, you’re thinking that waiting for this thing sucks… and it does. My time is valuable and if there’s one thing that I’ve learned over the past few years it’s that if I have to do something more than twice I need to figure out how to automate it because I will undoubtedly have to do it again. So let’s automate it…