The Value of Unit Testing

Question

Here are some typical answers(ranked in ascending order of corniness) I get from managers/bosses whenever I bring up the importance of having unit tests and code coverage as

Answer 1

My short and incomplete advice would be to:

• Just change jobs. A company whose managers give that sort of answers is going to fail anyway, and soon. Get out before it's too late.

• Reverse the blame game. Make an official statement every time something gets released without unit testing that it has been done so, and that you are not guaranteeing it's bug-free.

• Write down the time you spend on tasks, separating bug fixing after failed deployments, and total it against a (potential) time allotment for writing unit tests.