The problem with articles like this is that people who don't work in web startups and aren't writing tests at all will see this and go "writing tests is hard, t

The problem with articles like this is that people who don't work in web startups and aren't writing tests at all will see this and go "writing tests is hard, that guy on HN said testing wasn't worth it, therefore I'll carry on without writing tests". You seem to live in an environment where people are already advanced in their software practices, but I doubt this is representative of out industry as a whole. Your analogy with SQL-injection is quite revealing. I can assure you that protecting against SQL-injection is not a given for everyone. The irony is that if testing is over-hyped, it's not where it would be much needed. Too many big-budget long term developments don't use testing at all. Because there are no tests people are scared to make changes because it might break something, so they never refactor and the code becomes a big mess which obviously makes it even more scary to change. I felt like a hungry man reading an article about how food is over-hyped :)