To paraphrase: either testing is useful in your situation or it isn’t; when it is useful, use it, and otherwise don’t.
Really, the “debate” comes from the fact that some folks have embraced testing and TDD philosophically, and thus feel the need to evangelise it. The same thing happens with OOP, FP, you name it. We cleave tenaciously to our magic bullets. But I have found that the subjects of the most fervent evangelism tend also to be the least philosophically sound. Then again, maybe I’m just being contrarian (read: a hipster).
Like the author, my take is that if testing makes your development life easier, great. I use it too sometimes. But no, I don’t want to hear the Good News.
Really, the “debate” comes from the fact that some folks have embraced testing and TDD philosophically, and thus feel the need to evangelise it. The same thing happens with OOP, FP, you name it. We cleave tenaciously to our magic bullets. But I have found that the subjects of the most fervent evangelism tend also to be the least philosophically sound. Then again, maybe I’m just being contrarian (read: a hipster).
Like the author, my take is that if testing makes your development life easier, great. I use it too sometimes. But no, I don’t want to hear the Good News.