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I’m really glad to read that. I never understood the whole religion around unit tests. Integration tests are often far easier to write and far more valuable.

• coliveira 7y ago
  It is easy to explain: unit tests give a documented proof that you care about code robustness. It is used more for social and psychological effect than for its advantages. In fact, outside a few domains, unit tests make it harder to evolve software because the more tests you write, the harder it is to make changes that move the design in a different direction. This is, by the way, my main problem with verbose techniques of programming: the more you have to code, the harder to make needed changes.
• gbacon 7y ago
  Integration tests can be easier to write, are necessary, but can also be much slower to run. Yes, it’s possible to write bad unit tests; the same is true of integration tests. You need both unit tests and integration tests.