I don't think you're going to get a satisfactory answer from HN but I'll try. It's probably easiest to start with your manager and talk over these problems. C

I don't think you're going to get a satisfactory answer from HN but I'll try. It's probably easiest to start with your manager and talk over these problems. Consider how your manager works: Is he a data kind of guy? Show him how writing tests reduces bugs in the future and speeds development time. How will your changes allow you to ship more features or fix more bugs in the future? Is he trying to make everybody on the team happy? Ok, see if you can get a few of the more senior people together on the team and talk over the problem in meeting and get everyone to agree on an incremental plan moving forward. Is your team the kind that tends to hang out together after work? Go out with them once a week, see if you can bring this up in the group casually. Maybe your boss thinks everything is fine and will only listen if you make more noise? Go into his office and be more direct about the problems you're having. This also applies to the rest of the team. Consider that they may not see the problems with the project in the same way as you. That's not a bad or good thing, it's just that all people are different. You sound like you're frustrated because it's clear from the facts that there are not enough tests and your team's processes are not being followed. The rest of the team might think that "good enough" is all that is required, and adding more work (even if it reduces workload down the road) isn't a "nice" thing to do. > I rarely learn from them and they don't want to do things better, they only want to work to raise money. This is an opportunity for you to learn from them! It's just in areas that you may not be thinking about.