"It will make our work so much more efficient" The common complaints he lists at the start and acknowledge actually all boil down to the fact that unit tests d

"It will make our work so much more efficient" The common complaints he lists at the start and acknowledge actually all boil down to the fact that unit tests do not always make work more efficient. It's a tool in the toolbox. Sometimes they are great for your project. Sometimes they are a waste of time. It's still not magic pixie dust. In my current project we have a test suite for our public webservice APIs and various clients that interface against those. Those tests are invaluable. For other parts of the project unittests don't make sense, so we don't have them, since making them would be a colossal waste of time. So yes, you still need to defend unit tests, just like you need to defend every other choice you make during development. No specific tech gets carte blanche.