Excuse #2 - Writing tests is too hard

Introduction


So, after talking about the famous too-much-time excuse, I am going to address the next excuse in the Testing: Why Bother? series: We don't write tests because it's too hard!

I will try to make this post a little more practical than the previous one, but because it's still aimed more to the why and not the how, I'm not going to dive too much into the "how to write tests for beginners" techniques. If you feel you need some prior background for this, I can recommend the following great books:


So... I guess in your pretty world testing is a piece of cake...

Once again, you guess wrong my friends...