I do want to be clear. That I'm not arguing against "automated testing". It's really against a style of unit test development that is all the rage: TDD/BDD. The devs I've worked who practice it, is through the use something like Cucumber to drive the development of the application with tons of unit tests.

I'm a huge advocate of automated testing. And again, just in my experience, the productivity and perceived code quality I saw coming out of the BDD/TDD side of the house didn't seem to be a step in the right direction.