Wish I could vote you up a few more times on this. Mike Feathers called them characteristic tests. Sure, run them as unit tests, but get them under CI right awa

Wish I could vote you up a few more times on this. Mike Feathers called them characteristic tests. Sure, run them as unit tests, but get them under CI right away too. Test everything that moves all the time. This type of work, and this approach, appeals to a limited set of people, though. It's painstaking, detailed work. The other problem is that businesses don't understand its value, and don't want to pay for it, ime. I've seen two companies go down not paying attention in this area, and two more who are currently dying. Course, if the thing was under test to start with then things would be so much simpler ;)