[teknologist]

> When manual QA is that cheap, it turns the economics of automated testing on its head. Why maintain an automated regression suite when you have humans who will do the testing for you?

But in practice those who aren't paid a lot don't particularly care much about thorough testing. It requires a systematic approach that a kid out of college who just wants to get paid playing video games isn't going to develop

[cbanek]

They aren't just sitting there playing the games, or designing test cases (usually) - there are actual documents laying out what the test case is and what the manual tester should do to exercise the case. These cases are split up usually among a room of people who check them off one by one for a given build under test.