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by mrhands556 1325 days ago
> You may be trying to simulate a ‘session’ where a client performs many steps in order to achieve a goal. As Gerard Meszaros writes regarding the test smell, this is appropriate for manual tests, but rarely for automated tests.

Integration tests are typically easier to write / maintain and thus are more valuable than small unit tests. Don’t know why the entire premise argues against that.