It’s a one-line function that returns a constant. What could go wrong?

Here’s a function:

def get_foo():
    return None

Simple, right? I don’t need to unit test that. Except I did, because that method was part of a mixin:

class MyMixin(object):
    def get_foo():
        return None

And that mixin was attached to a class, which inherited from another class. And that parent class also inherited from a different mixin, that had a different implementation of get_foo(). So, if I had actually written the unit test against the class in question, I would’ve caught that error right away.

At least I had the sense to write the unit test when I was trying to figure out why things were failing in the functional testing.

Write the unit test. Just write it.

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