I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined vari

I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes something that's not true, syntax error that could make it past initial app load -- a test that at least makes sure the code is runnable without throwing an error is better than nothing.