[geebee]

One of the really great things about software development is that reality, rather than a committee, gets the final word. I think that unit testing is a great idea, in theory and in practice, but I do think that the unit testing may get to the point where some practitioners who are not careful will spend far longer to complete a project with no discernible improvement in stability or maintainability than someone who uses unit testing more judiciously. I have used the end-to-end automated functional test approach before, and it did enable me to find problems pretty quickly. However, I would have died a slow and painful mental death without unit tests in some of the tricker sections of my code.

That said, yeah, "unit testing is a waste of time" is link-bait-ish.