Not to mention the fact that at least one of the criticisms in the article is a total strawman. Joel never said that unit testing is absurd; he said that 100% c

Not to mention the fact that at least one of the criticisms in the article is a total strawman. Joel never said that unit testing is absurd; he said that 100% coverage (and to a slightly lesser extent, unit testing of criteria where tests can not be sufficiently automated (like GUI layouts)) are a waste of time, and that resources could be allocated much more efficiently.