In response to my post “Excuses For Not Testing” Kris K asked:
There is also another side of Unit Tests. Some companies are so fixated they aspire to have 100% Unit Tests coverage and they make programmers write Unit Tests for legacy code for no reason. Just for the sake of having Unit Tests. … [I] wonder if you had any similar experiences and what you think about this approach. I guess the 100% extreme is better than no tests at all, but it can make the developers very bored and feeling useless.
And my initial reaction to this was, “WOW! So much to respond to here. I think this is worth a blog post.