Really it's like that bridge in 'Apocalypse Now'. The sergeant is telling Martin Sheen how the bridge is always bombed and they have to come in and re-build it, "just so the generals can say the bridge is open." Well, I have done a lot of unit testing (CPPUnit), and it is like that. We do unit testing so management can say the product has been unit tested. Coals to Newcastle, to be sure, but hey, it's a job!