Interesting... I think I'm with you on this one. There have been a few occasions where I got my test coverage through integration tests rather than unit or functional tests as well.
My real goal is to have tests that will sound the alarm if I've done something that breaks the application. I think this is similar to the "smoke test" you're talking about. Don't want to have to fire up the server and walk through all the use cases - it's very useful to have integration tests that will do this instead.
My real goal is to have tests that will sound the alarm if I've done something that breaks the application. I think this is similar to the "smoke test" you're talking about. Don't want to have to fire up the server and walk through all the use cases - it's very useful to have integration tests that will do this instead.