High Level Testing with a High Level Language

In the early days of my project we made the decision to high-level test our Java application with Clojure*. One and a half years later, we're still following that path. It seemed worthwhile to document the progress so far.

My current preferred style of testing is rigorous unit testing and less than a dozen high level tests.

This style of testing doesn't catch everything; however, context is king. In my context, we constantly have to balance the number of bugs against the speed at which we deli...