ORMs are excepted in my book. Good point. But DB integration tests are possible; slower than unit but still faster than end to end. I created some recently for

ORMs are excepted in my book. Good point. But DB integration tests are possible; slower than unit but still faster than end to end. I created some recently for a side project to make assertions about full text search behaviour, so I could swap out psql for elastc search (for my sins) and have coverage still.