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I upvoted the first option then realized I needed to upvote all of them. I have and will continue to confirm to each as the situation calls and allows.

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Which situations do you think call for "no automated tests"?

The quick and dirty jobs that we all do every now and then.

These times are when you need automated testing the most.

I don't really need automated testing tools when I write a small program that I just use myself for some task.

If it works it works, if it doesn't I do it again.

Yeah many times when you are 'spiking' and idea you can work through a simple small example fastest without testing. I agree when you are quickly just trying to see if something is possible testing will slow you down, and isn't worth the benefits of TDD.

Then when I start to integrate that solution into real production code I go back and add some tests. (mostly integration tests)

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