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I think this is part of the problem.

Unit tests are an easy path to fall down, because they're clearly easier to setup, to write for, require less effort to maintain, execute more quickly.

But you don't realise their significant downside until after you attempt a major refactor - you begin to see that unit tests are testing at the layer that changes the most anyway.




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