There's also more payoff for your tests over time. The longer your project lasts, the more those tests pay dividends. Even they seem painful no, they are an inv

There's also more payoff for your tests over time. The longer your project lasts, the more those tests pay dividends. Even they seem painful no, they are an investment towards maintainable code in the future. I think this is the most important thing. Tests are an investment, but once you've done them, every time you run them from that point on is free. The amortized cost keeps getting better and better. Once you pull in a Continuous Integration engine, or even turn it up to 11 and implement continuous deployment, those tests really do pay for themselves. It's just intimidating in the short-term. Whenever I've gone rogue and thought "Sod it, not today", it's invariably bitten me on the ass twice over the pain it would have been to write them.