Absolutely. I've worked in places which enforced this decouple-everything-from-everything approach, and it just grinds work to a halt, makes test failures commo

Absolutely. I've worked in places which enforced this decouple-everything-from-everything approach, and it just grinds work to a halt, makes test failures commonplace and uninformative. I think there's a definite problem with terminology when it comes to testing. I've written about this before; the latest example being http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-07-07-more_testing_terminology.html http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-07-07-more_testing_terminolo... (just submitted to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757346 )