Yup, unit tests are a programmer aid, not a replacement for QA. If the unit tests aren't helping you code faster (by preventing debugging), they're not worth i

Yup, unit tests are a programmer aid, not a replacement for QA. If the unit tests aren't helping you code faster (by preventing debugging), they're not worth it. It's probably close to impossible to prevent people from using unit tests as a substitute for QA, though. The concepts are similar enough that people are bound to confuse them, or at least take the confidence they get from passing unit tests as "good enough" to substitute for QA.