[pjc50]

> In my experience (20+ years of writing software professionally) I've never built an automated test. I've never used an automated test.

That has to be quite an outlier. How do you find teams and managers that accept working like that? What's the failure rate of bugs found in production, and how much value at risk are we talking here?

I've written plenty of systems where automated testing was infeasible or useless .. but we always did manual testing before shipping.

(At the other end I've done IC design where if a mistake isn't found it's another £25k at least plus staff time to do a re-spin, so obviously we had automated tests with near 100% coverage)