
Unit Testing Myths and Practices
05 January 2012
by Tom Fischer
We all understand the value of Unit Testing, but how come so few organisations maintain unit tests for their in-house applications? We can no longer pretend that unit testing is a universal panacea for ensuring less-buggy applications. Instead, we should be prepared to actively justify the use of unit tests, and be more savvy about where in the development cycle the unit test resources should be most effectively used.
Despite the pervasive dictum within software engineering that unit tests must exist for all code, such tests are little-used for the development of enterprise applications. In over fifteen years of consulting, I can count on...