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this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Very common. Your coworkers are either idiots, or more likely they're just being lazy, can't be bothered to set it up and are coming up with excuses.
The one exception I will allow is for GUI programs. It's extremely difficult to do automatically tests for them, and in my experience it's such a pain that manual testing is often less annoying. For example VSCode has no automatic UI tests as far as I know.
That will probably change once AI-based GUI testing becomes common but it isn't yet.
For anything else, you should 100% have automated tests running in CI and if you don't you are doing it wrong.
Leadership may be idiots, but devs are mostly just burnt out and recognized that quality isn't a very high priority and know not to take too much pride in the product. I think it's my own problem that I have a hard time separating my pride from my work.
Thanks for the response. It's good to know that my experience here isn't super common.