From: "William E. Rubin" <williamerubin@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T03:07:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker?

> That's the exact scenario that unit tests are great for, finding issues in
> parts of code that aren't hit often, or nearly at all.  If they're covered
> by a unit test though you know, right away that something is wrong, and you
> can fix it, without waiting for that scenario to arrive.

Well sure, but for a quick and dirty one-off script, that you're
potentially changing a bunch as the need arises, it's not always
feasible (timewise) to design unit tests for every possible scenario,
nor to keep them up to date.