Hatin’ On Unit Testing

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone who really hates unit testing like Wil Shipley (via Coding Horror).

He brings up some really good points too, by the end of it I wanted
to go and delete all of my unit tests too!  Like Jeff Atwood, I
think that unit testing is a good first line of defense for the
developers to use, but the important stuff is getting actual users to
use your product extensively in a variety of environments.

3 Comments so far »

  1. Anonymous said,

    Wrote on October 20, 2005 @ 10:08 am

    I’m not sure how much, but Wil Shipley seems to think an awfull lot! And he seems to have some pretty…

  2. Anonymous said,

    Wrote on October 20, 2005 @ 10:45 am


  3. Anonymous said,

    Wrote on October 20, 2005 @ 2:28 pm

    This guys obviously misses the point of unit testing. Unit testing is not intended to be a replacement for user testing, or any other kind of testing. It’s just another type of testing you can do.

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