We skipped unit tests when we built desksnear.me for the rails rumble, but we DID have a cucumber test suite for integration testing. It wasn't that much of an impost for us, and it meant we spent more time coding, and less time manually testing stuff.
I think this approach fits well with the idea of an MVP - you express your minimum set of features in such a way that you can automatically test them, while still freeing yourself to throw away parts of the underlying code if you need to.
At the end of the day it's not an all or nothing thing, if there's a particularly gnarly bit of code that you want to unit test, then just unit test it!
I think this approach fits well with the idea of an MVP - you express your minimum set of features in such a way that you can automatically test them, while still freeing yourself to throw away parts of the underlying code if you need to.
At the end of the day it's not an all or nothing thing, if there's a particularly gnarly bit of code that you want to unit test, then just unit test it!