“Man, I just love unit tests, I’ve just been able to make a bunch of changes to the way something works, and then was able to confirm I hadn’t broken anything by running the test over it again…” — http://stackoverflow.com/a/67500

The benefits of unit testing are well known, as are the many reasons that are offered when asked “Why don’t you do it?”. The arguments I hear over and over are:

• “It takes too much time.”
• “Our code isn’t suitable for unit testing.”

I’ve discussed unit testing with many people in the past years and at some point, I discovered one of the main reasons behind the arguments that were actually offered. We human beings find it much easier to say “It’s not possible”, “It’s too expensive”, “I don’t want to” or “I won’t start doing this until I’ve seen it work” (this one I encounter surprisingly often and makes me smile nowadays) than to admit:

• “I don’t know how”