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As someone who wrote automated compiler tests many years ago, I believe that the right balance for a developer is to write an example test or two for QA to work from for writing unit tests for her new features.

IMHO, developers should not be in the practice of exhaustive, automated unit testing, but should write sanity checks for continuous integration and after deployment smoke tests to make sure nothing fundamental broke in the build. It's easy to take TDD too far.




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