I totally agree with this!! I've been learning this the hard way and came to similar conslusions about the need to wrap code with functional testing first and t

I totally agree with this!! I've been learning this the hard way and came to similar conslusions about the need to wrap code with functional testing first and then refactor. It solves the chicken/egg problem with unit test/refactor. But it's not very popular -- maybe because of a percieved two-pass testing. Lots of work.