So... You want your code to be maintainable.

Completely uninsightful, or whatever the opposite of insightful is. I think by now everyone here has heard how great unit tests are and everything. This article brings absolutely nothing new.

I also don't see how unit tests have that much to do with design. Unit testing "proves" in a more or less conclusive way that the implementation conforms to the specification of the program. But there are countless ways to screw up a design big time and still satisfy this objective correctness constraint.

I'm not sure how having a testing framework leads directly to good design. I know they help show that things aren't broken, but I don't see how they affect the design of the modification.

I don't know how you guys read that article - are those fonts are set to 1.32px? I have 20/20 vision but jeez... I had to increase the font viewing size three friggin' times to read that article.

As for the content, I don't know why folks aren't okay with it. It's clearly targeted towards newbies - why insist on including "something new"? Newbies need help :)