How often / when do your teams write automated tests?
No automated tests, and no intention to ever write them4%
No automated tests, but have an intention to write them in the future37%
Writing automated tests after big feature releases23%
Writing automated tests after several sprints18%
Writing automated tests at the end of the sprint4%
Writing automated tests at the end of each user story3%
Ensuring each commit has automated tests3%
Test Driven Development3%
Other (please comment)
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Really suprised that TDD is, amongst this audience, so little used. The idea of taking a user story, experssing the requirements in gherkin type language, then using that spec to create tests in a red/green/refactor approach has stood my developers (and the supporting QA engineers) move faster, deliver code that meets the spec, and given us assurance on system and regression testing long after the original code and test code were written. I dont belive that you need automated tests for everything but you do need it for the majority of things.