
15 Sep
2006
15 Sep
'06
3:52 a.m.
Bill Lear wrote:
This is essentially the approach I have taken over the years. At some point, the unit tests become hopelessly complex, Mock objects begin to weigh development down (if you change the interface, you have to change your mock objects) and a transition is made to higher-level integrated testing.
I assume you always need integrated testing in addition to unit tests, but it sounds like you're saying that at some point, maintaining the unit test framework stops paying for itself, so you abandon it. Is that correct? Scott