> Fire manual QA team Terrible idea. > and hire people to write automated integration tests. Excellent idea. I've been a part of many software projects, and

> Fire manual QA team Terrible idea. > and hire people to write automated integration tests. Excellent idea. I've been a part of many software projects, and unfortunately almost none of them took testing seriously enough. No, actually, none did. I've tested software manually for years. I've found many defects I'm certain no reasonably complex automated test would have detected, because finding them was down to my global knowledge of the entire system's state or the superior ability of humans to detect patterns. Don't underestimate what an experienced, cunning tester will suss out.