测试驱动开发中经常被忽略的一个主要部分是可测试代码的编写。乍一看，这似乎是一种妥协，但您会发现可测试代码最终也是模块化的、可维护的和可读的。 如果你仍然需要说服别人，这是一个关于单元测试优点的简单演示。

单元测试很像去健身房。你知道这对你有好处，所有的争论都有意义，所以你开始锻炼。刚开始有一种冲动，这很好，但几天后你开始怀疑是否值得这样做。你每天花一个小时换衣服，在仓鼠转轮上跑步，你不确定除了腿和手臂疼痛之外，你真的得到了什么。

然后，也许一两周后，就在疼痛消失的时候，一个重要的截止日期开始来临。你需要把醒着的每一个小时都用来完成“有用的”工作，所以你要去掉无关紧要的事情，比如去健身房。你改掉了这个习惯，当截止日期结束的时候，你又回到了起点。如果你设法回到健身房，你会觉得和你第一次去的时候一样酸痛。

You do some reading, to see if you're doing something wrong. You begin feel a little bit of irrational spite toward all the fit, happy people extolling the virtues of exercise. You realize that you don't have a lot in common. They don't have to drive 15 minutes out of the way to go to the gym; there is one in their building. They don't have to argue with anybody about the benefits of exercise; it is just something everybody does and accepts as important. When a Big Deadline approaches, they aren't told that exercise is unnecessary any more than your boss would ask you to stop eating.

所以，回答你的问题，单元测试通常是值得付出努力的，但是所需的努力量对每个人来说都不一样。如果你在一家不重视代码质量的公司处理意大利面条式的代码库，那么单元测试可能需要付出巨大的努力。(许多经理会歌颂单元测试，但这并不意味着他们会在关键时刻支持单元测试。)

如果你正试图将单元测试引入到你的工作中，并且没有看到你所期待的所有阳光和彩虹，不要责怪自己。你可能需要找一份新工作来真正让单元测试为你工作。

单元测试非常值得最初的投资。自从几年前开始使用单元测试以来，我发现了一些真正的好处:

回归测试消除了恐惧 对代码进行更改(什么都没有 就像看到代码的温暖光芒 每次有变化，要么工作，要么爆发 了) 以下的可执行代码示例 其他团队成员(包括你自己) 6个月的时间…) 无情的重构——这是令人难以置信的回报，试试吧!

代码片段可以极大地帮助减少创建测试的开销。创建能够在几秒钟内创建类大纲和相关单元测试fixture的代码片段并不困难。

我是一名维护工程师，负责一个文档记录不佳、糟糕而庞大的代码库。我希望编写代码的人已经为它编写了单元测试。 每次我进行更改和更新产品代码时，我都担心自己可能会因为没有考虑某些条件而引入错误。 如果他们编写测试，那么对代码库的更改就会更容易、更快。(与此同时，代码库将处于更好的状态)..

我认为，在编写api或框架时，单元测试非常有用，因为这些api或框架必须持续多年，并由原始编码器以外的人使用/修改/发展。

Yes - Unit Testing is definitely worth the effort but you should know it's not a silver bullet. Unit Testing is work and you will have to work to keep the test updated and relevant as code changes but the value offered is worth the effort you have to put in. The ability to refactor with impunity is a huge benefit as you can always validate functionality by running your tests after any change code. The trick is to not get too hung up on exactly the unit-of-work you're testing or how you are scaffolding test requirements and when a unit-test is really a functional test, etc. People will argue about this stuff for hours on end and the reality is that any testing you do as your write code is better than not doing it. The other axiom is about quality and not quantity - I have seen code-bases with 1000's of test that are essentially meaningless as the rest don't really test anything useful or anything domain specific like business rules, etc of the particular domain. I've also seen codebases with 30% code coverage but the tests were relevant, meaningful and really awesome as they tested the core functionality of the code it was written for and expressed how the code should be used.

在探索新的框架或代码库时，我最喜欢的一个技巧是为“它”编写单元测试，以发现事物是如何工作的。这是一个学习新事物的好方法，而不是阅读枯燥的文档:)

我不知道。很多地方不做单元测试，但是代码质量很好。微软做单元测试，但是比尔·盖茨在他的演示中出现了蓝屏。