Unit testing is not (generally) useful

Re:Unit testing is not (generally) useful by bjclark on Thursday February 05, 2009 @11:27AM (#468128)

Unit tests have nothing to do with, and aren't in any way mutually exclusive to load testing and logging and user reports. Frankly, it just sounds naive to say that you replaced unit testing with logging, or load testing, or letting your users find the bugs for you.

People that do unit tests do all that stuff too!

Your lack of specs also has nothing to do with unit testing. It might dictate the difficultly in writing acceptance tests, but that's a completely different subject.

I don't feel the need to proselytize unit tests since you've already written them off, but what's the point to posting about why you don't like something only to back it up with some sort of rambling, incoherent analogy that you probably don't even believe?

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Re:Unit testing is not (generally) useful by abstractbill on Thursday February 05, 2009 @11:36AM (#468152)

I certainly do believe the analogy.

The point was that the ROI on unit tests is almost always very much lower than the ROI of the others. So when time gets tight (as it always is in a startup), you should generally put effort into all the other things and not into unit tests.

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