He goes out of his way to avoid being anti-unit testing on here, but the whole thing does come off as looking as if it's anti-unit testing. I suspect there are

He goes out of his way to avoid being anti-unit testing on here, but the whole thing does come off as looking as if it's anti-unit testing. I suspect there are just as many anti-unit test posts as there are pro-unit tests, and it really bothers me that these are so common. I can only assume that anti-unit test types, like anti-OO types, were burned by a wacky unit test implementation (and there are plenty!) once and blamed it on the concept of unit tests. In my experience, as long as each non-trivial function can be invoked on its own through a unit test (that is, without actually spinning up a live database or having remote services available), you're "good enough" on unit tests, and you can manually test the edge cases from there.