[globular-toast]

Then you get a slow test suite. It's important to have a fast test suite to be able to do proper test driven development (which I still believe is the most efficient and effective way to write software, in general). Unit tests should be near 100% coverage. That means a lot of tests.

[peterldowns]

That's not always true — database-backed tests can be extremely fast, see https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb.

[bluGill]

databases can run hundreds of test in a ms. Sure without you could get to thousands in that ms - who cares.