Even though the benefits are well-known, signs suggest that unit testing — the practice in which developers write hundred of small tests to exercise their code — may be headed toward stagnation or even a decline. The high-profile collapse of Agitar is just one of the indications. Is unit testing doomed? “Most organizations that see past these concerns and actually try unit testing usually find the return is well worth the cost, and typically expand their unit testing efforts, Andrew Binstock explains. “Still, they have to get over that initial resistance.” Software Development