[psahgal]

Test-driven development is a useful tool, but it doesn't remove the need for manual testing completely, especially on frontend projects.

I've worked on mobile apps before with a small team, and inevitably, we'll find bugs that show up in the user interface when the user rotates their phone. It's hard to unit test for rotation changes, and it's also hard to code a rotation change into an end-to-end test on mobile. Animations are also something that's difficult to test in an automated fashion, and all the testing in the world won't be as good as showing the animation in front of a designer. So some level of manual testing is needed on mobile.

I've worked on web frontends where there would be bugs with scrolling jumping back and forth. An end-to-end test using Selenium may not catch the issue, but for a user, it can be painfully obvious. Similarly, animations are also hard to unit test on the web. So some level of manual testing is needed on the web.

The only place where I could see manual testing NOT being needed is for backend development, since the input and output to a backend system is much more controlled. You could write an end-to-end test for any scenario a user could throw at your system.

In summary, don't underestimate the value of manual QA!