No. It's not about satisfying bureaucracy. It's that at a certain point, any complex code system becomes a black box. You cannot fully reason about it. Your tes

No. It's not about satisfying bureaucracy. It's that at a certain point, any complex code system becomes a black box. You cannot fully reason about it. Your tests become your source of validating that box and any change you make is just as likely to break something as it is to fix something.