What is the Business Value of Unit Testing? Part 1

We’ve been doing a lot more concentration on unit testing at work lately, and a question has come up. What value do automated unit tests provide?

The text book(ish) answer is:

if you’re unit testing your code with relevant asserts, with good enough code coverage, the less likely there will be bugs. Sounds great! Why isn’t everyone doing it? Unit testing does require a certain style of coding, loose dependencies, and a certain amount of planning. Here’s a good SO answer that goes into some detail on how/why unit testing…

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