This is a post for myself, because I’m much more a cow boy programmer, and I know this is bad, even if sometimes results are apparently good. The leaking part in my code are usually unit tests, and there is no excuse about that, since it is necessary to change the approach on its root, for example writing the (failing) test before the real code. This is actually a design strategy, that eventually improve the reliability of the software and the portability of the software against other developers. The hardest part is that sometimes the boundary between unit testing and integration testing is apparently very thin: making that boundary better defined is part of the design process. I found this document, and I think is very useful to understand the common errors producing a non testable code, and the strategy to avoid them.