I agree. this poll forces me to choose between a test suite that tests "all functionality" and "a few critical things". I think a lot of people who value high

I agree. this poll forces me to choose between a test suite that tests "all functionality" and "a few critical things". I think a lot of people who value high levels of testing coverage still fall somewhat short of all functionality, but are way above "a few critical things". I'm using rails these days, and I have 100% test coverage on models and controllers (though that really just means that all the model and controller code is executed when I run my tests, these tools can't really tell if you've tested the code intelligently, though I hope I have). I don't have a full suite of integration tests that validate all of the view logic, though there are some checks. I also have integration tests that validate external dependencies (file storage, database connectivity, etc), though again, there may be some holes. I picked "all", since that's closest to where I am. But my best choice would be "we maintain a high (95%+) level of testing coverage". I don't think I'm splitting hairs here, because there may be a practical tradeoff between high levels and complete levels of test coverage. NOTE: "high" levels of testing can mean different things to different people... doesn't have to be 95%, which I would consider to be higher than absolutely necessary. It depends so much on what you're actually testing (anyone who has used a coverage tool knows you can often "trick" the tool into awarding the 100% bar without doing much other than just making sure the tests run the code... which is useful in its way but can let all kinds of errors slip through).