你应该尽量少测试!

这意味着，您应该编写足够多的单元测试来揭示意图。这一点经常被掩盖。单元测试的成本很高。如果您进行了更改，并且必须更改测试，那么您将不那么敏捷。保持单元测试短小精悍。这样它们就有很大的价值。

我经常看到许多永远不会崩溃的测试，它们又大又笨拙，没有提供太多价值，它们最终只会拖慢你的速度。

作为一名物理专业的学生，我非常有动力去证明我的代码是可以正常工作的。您可以从逻辑上证明这一点，随着实现变得更加复杂，难度会急剧增加，或者您可以通过良好的测试对功能进行(尽可能接近的)经验证明。

如果不提供函数的逻辑证明，就必须进行测试。唯一的选择是说“我认为代码可以工作....”

在我们的办公室里，每天都有这样的对话:

“伙计，我就是喜欢单元测试，我刚刚能够对某些东西的工作方式进行了一系列更改，然后能够通过再次运行测试来确认我没有破坏任何东西……”

细节每天都在变化，但情绪却不变。单元测试和测试驱动开发(TDD)有很多隐藏的和个人的好处，也有很多明显的好处，除非他们自己做，否则你无法真正向他们解释。

但是，忽略这一点，下面是我的尝试!

Unit Tests allows you to make big changes to code quickly. You know it works now because you've run the tests, when you make the changes you need to make, you need to get the tests working again. This saves hours. TDD helps you to realise when to stop coding. Your tests give you confidence that you've done enough for now and can stop tweaking and move on to the next thing. The tests and the code work together to achieve better code. Your code could be bad / buggy. Your TEST could be bad / buggy. In TDD you are banking on the chances of both being bad / buggy being low. Often it's the test that needs fixing but that's still a good outcome. TDD helps with coding constipation. When faced with a large and daunting piece of work ahead writing the tests will get you moving quickly. Unit Tests help you really understand the design of the code you are working on. Instead of writing code to do something, you are starting by outlining all the conditions you are subjecting the code to and what outputs you'd expect from that. Unit Tests give you instant visual feedback, we all like the feeling of all those green lights when we've done. It's very satisfying. It's also much easier to pick up where you left off after an interruption because you can see where you got to - that next red light that needs fixing. Contrary to popular belief unit testing does not mean writing twice as much code, or coding slower. It's faster and more robust than coding without tests once you've got the hang of it. Test code itself is usually relatively trivial and doesn't add a big overhead to what you're doing. This is one you'll only believe when you're doing it :) I think it was Fowler who said: "Imperfect tests, run frequently, are much better than perfect tests that are never written at all". I interpret this as giving me permission to write tests where I think they'll be most useful even if the rest of my code coverage is woefully incomplete. Good unit tests can help document and define what something is supposed to do Unit tests help with code re-use. Migrate both your code and your tests to your new project. Tweak the code till the tests run again.

我参与的很多工作都没有很好地进行单元测试(web应用程序用户交互等)，但即使如此，我们在这个商店里都被测试感染了，当我们把测试束缚住时，我们最高兴。我怎么极力推荐这种方法都不为过。

@George Stocker“不幸的是，我们的代码库并不适合简单的测试。”每个人都同意单元测试有好处，但对于这个代码库来说，成本似乎很高。如果成本大于收益，那么他们为什么要对此充满热情呢?倾听你同事的意见;也许对他们来说，单元测试的痛苦比单元测试的价值更大。

具体地说，尽量尽快获得价值，而不是一些感觉良好的“xUnit是绿色的”价值，而是用户和维护者所重视的干净代码。也许您必须为一次迭代强制进行单元测试，然后讨论是否值得这样做。

我在几年前发现了TDD，从那时起我就使用它编写了所有我喜欢的项目。我估计，TDD一个项目所花费的时间与牛仔式地组合一个项目所花费的时间大致相同，但我对最终产品的信心增加了，以至于我忍不住有一种成就感。

我还觉得它改进了我的设计风格(更面向界面，以防我需要一起模拟东西)，而且，正如顶部的绿色帖子所写的，它有助于“编码便秘”:当你不知道接下来要写什么，或者你有一个令人生畏的任务摆在你面前时，你可以写小一点的。

最后，我发现到目前为止，TDD最有用的应用是在调试中，如果仅仅因为您已经开发了一个询问框架，那么您就可以用它来刺激项目以可重复的方式产生错误。

单元测试适用于QA人员或你的经理，而不是你;所以绝对不值得。

您应该专注于编写正确的代码(不管这意味着什么)，而不是测试用例。让其他人去担心吧。