For the last couple of years I have been particularly passionate and vocal on my projects and in the community about the importance of writing tests as close as possible to where the code is written.
As a result I have been achieving easier and cheaper to maintain testing pyramids as opposed to expensive and brittle ice-cream cones. My passion stems from all the times that I saw, and wrote myself, test suites which attempted to achieve most of the high level scenario coverage through the user interface.
I was one of the passionate advocates of this technique during a ThoughtWorks Technology Radar session where we collected new ideas. Now I am quite satisfied to see that the technique has recently been added to the adopt section of the latest radar.
