>There are obvious solutions: Mocking everything, removing global state, writing more robust test setup code... But who has time for this? I find that doing al

>There are obvious solutions: Mocking everything, removing global state, writing more robust test setup code... But who has time for this? I find that doing all of this tends to actually save time overall it's just that the up front investment is high and the payoff is realized over a long time. Most software teams seem to prefer higher ongoing costs if it comes with quick wins to up front investment.