It wasn't that bad at a previous job, but it was close. The sad part is nobody else would comment on the useless nature of these tests that didn't actually test anything.
It’s very tricky to be against any kind of testing in a professional setting… opens you up for other engineers to question your maturity, professionalism, an and commitment to reliability. Or at least to look substantially more mature, professional, and committed to reliability than you. In front of management that can be death.
People with a lot of clout have absorbed the virtues of automated testing in general and applied it to unit testing in particular. It’s hard to swim upstream on that one.
It's true. I mean, I wouldn't comment on them either. I'd just roll my eyes when asked to review another 4000 line "test suite" that upped the coverage but did not test anything meaningful. I wrote many useless tests myself, assigned tasks like "upping test coverage for module XYZ." They'd all get thumbs up and looks-good in reviews.
