situation: integration tests are done manually, only unit tests exist developers: we have started writing a tool for integration tests, but it needs more work and it should be mandatory to be used in all projects management: let's do an audit first, I still know some guys at this big consulting company consulting guys: we checked your paperwork and there seem to be no integration tests management: alright, from now on there's a lot of paperwork mandatory for every manual integration test
Another sad example...
situation: integration tests are done manually, only unit tests exist
developers: we have started writing a tool for integration tests, but it needs more work and it should be mandatory to be used in all projects
management: let's do an audit first, I still know some guys at this big consulting company
consulting guys: we checked your paperwork and there seem to be no integration tests
management: alright, from now on there's a lot of paperwork mandatory for every manual integration test
Ha, yup, another reason to test your code properly and maintain the best code quality: one day it's going to get audited...