Unit Testing in Coders at Work
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It's only when you've brought together enough code or developers or overlapping features or bitrot where tests will start catching undesired changes in behavior. If the authors of the first pass of the Mozilla browser say it would have slowed them down on that initial release, I don't think anyone can credibly argue otherwise if they weren't there. I'll also let the long term stability of that browser speak for itself.