Unit-Testing on a Local Chain Is Important, Because It Helps

Unit-Testing on a local chain is important, because it helps you:

A) to run tests quickly and especially for free, compared to continuous deployment on the MainNetwork. This way you save a lot of fees, time and costs.
B) to run tests in an environment where logging is activated. On the Main-Net you have no access to transaction logs and this is ultimately the information you need to debug your contracts.
C) to avoid regression bugs with contracts that are updated constantly on the main-net. Once you update a contract on the main-net, the address stays the same, but the code changes and this can have disastrous side-effects.