Discussion on answer by gbjbaanb: Is testable code better code?

+1 for having the guts to come out and say it. A lot of times, making something "testable" requires you to turn simple, clear code inside out and make a horrendous mess of it.

@MasonWheeler cheers, I know its not fashionable but I dislike the cargo-cult attitude of unit testing we have today. A guy I worked with a while back was very proud of the 1500 tests he'd written for a rather simple service. Its almost like testing has become a bit of a game (like gathering SO points ;) ) and we end up with questions like this, getters tested, design patterns solely to assist the test tools, and when a language gains keywords to test stuff like private methods, you know people are playing with the new toy, and have stopped thinking what they are really trying to achieve.