"Some projects were even called “eternal projects.” Developers would move on to other projects before the testers could go over everything. Sometimes features would lay around for four months before they were released. It was making developers really unhappy, and slowing down our business strategy."

"Writing end-to-end tests isn’t very complicated, the biggest challenge is the distraction that testing created for the whole team. The need to write a test for each new feature and the need to maintain those tests over time, created a lot of overhead for core developers who needed to focus …