>There's a similar push underway to do away with unit tests. I agree with that push, as long as there's some other way of validating requirements. In my team,

>There's a similar push underway to do away with unit tests. I agree with that push, as long as there's some other way of validating requirements. In my team, that's done with integration tests and our core principle is: code that is integration tested does not require unit testing. That principle surprisingly covers a good 70-75% of the codebase, leaving us with a few core unit tests for the secret sauce of our product.