I believe in learning from experience. If someone questions why he/she should write automatic tests, I'd task him with running regression tests on every deploy for an entire Sprint. I believe they'll never question the usefulness of automatic tests.
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I believe in learning from experience. If someone questions why he/she should write automatic tests, I'd task him with running regression tests on every deploy for an entire Sprint. I believe they'll never question the usefulness of automatic tests.