The Curse of Unit Tests

Reasons against Testing

There is a couple of “reasons” out there why people do not want to test their code

• my project is late

• do not touch my code it works

• my code is un-testable

• I just work on the project myself

No doubt testing your code is hard now, but working on non-tested code is much harder in the long term. Its kind of an investment that will pay off in the future.

Benefits of Testing

How tested code makes your life easier:

• more certainty on how it works

• increases trustworthiness

• reduces technical depth

• documents the usage of your code

• puts yourself into your users’ shoes

• fosters good coding practices

• focus on your current task and forget about the rest of the code

• Be lazy! Let the computer do the checking.