This is exactly the problem that I see with the testing/TDD culture. Automated tests are wonderful because they save me time, not because they are the singular Holy Magic Grail Bullet of software development.
My software tends to be obsessively modular as it is, because I’m lazy. I can hold a complex tangled system in my head. It just sucks. So even when I only test manually, I am reasonably assured that nothing’s broken. But there’s no need to do manually what your computer can do automatically.
My software tends to be obsessively modular as it is, because I’m lazy. I can hold a complex tangled system in my head. It just sucks. So even when I only test manually, I am reasonably assured that nothing’s broken. But there’s no need to do manually what your computer can do automatically.