Over the last few days there’s been a firestorm about unit testing. Some folks dislike it (Will Shipley), and some who think the other way.

Here’s my take: you need both unit testing and a QA suite to get your application past the “QA” cycle of software development. There are some extremes (frameworks or component code on one extreme, and code that is mostly interface - or that just drives other apps - on the other), but most apps need both. Here are my views on the whole thing…
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