What confidence do unit tests add that other kinds of tests do not?
The confusion here between unit testing and automated testing in general kind of illustrates the author’s point: we’ve become so obsessively focused on one kind of testing that we aren’t thinking critically about its alternatives (of which there are many others besides “no tests”).
The confusion here between unit testing and automated testing in general kind of illustrates the author’s point: we’ve become so obsessively focused on one kind of testing that we aren’t thinking critically about its alternatives (of which there are many others besides “no tests”).