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:)

单元测试的一个好处是，它们可以作为说明代码行为方式的文档。好的测试有点像参考实现，团队成员可以通过查看它们来了解如何将他们的代码与您的代码集成。

使用单元测试套件，可以在保持其余功能不变的情况下对代码进行更改。这是一个很大的优势。当你完成新功能的编码时，你会使用单元测试套件和回归测试套件吗?

关于这个话题，我写了一篇很大的博客文章。我发现单靠单元测试是不值得的，而且通常在截止日期临近时就会被削减。

与其从“测试后验证”的角度来讨论单元测试，我们应该看看在实现之前编写规范/测试/想法时所发现的真正价值。

这个简单的想法改变了我写软件的方式，我不会回到“旧的”方式。

测试优先开发如何改变了我的生活

你想说服谁?工程师还是经理?如果你试图说服你的工程师同事，我认为你最好的办法是迎合他们的愿望，让他们做出高质量的软件。有许多研究表明，它能发现漏洞，如果他们关心做好工作，这对他们来说就足够了。

如果您试图说服管理层，您将很可能不得不做一些成本/收益推理，说明未检测到的缺陷的成本大于编写测试的成本。一定要把不可转化的成本也包括在内，比如失去客户的信心等等。

当涉及到重构或重写一段代码时，单元测试也特别有用。如果您有良好的单元测试覆盖率，您就可以满怀信心地进行重构。如果没有单元测试，通常很难确保您没有破坏任何东西。