Agreed. The number of times that manual tests have unearthed completely unthought of situations is huge. A good QA tester will do weird and wonderful things tha

Agreed. The number of times that manual tests have unearthed completely unthought of situations is huge. A good QA tester will do weird and wonderful things that no developer ever thinks of doing, never mind testing for. Saying you shouldn't manually test is like saying you shouldn't shower. Sure, you can get away with it for a time, and it saves time! But eventually someone's going to point out you smell bad. Having a customer have to tell you your product is broken (smells bad), because you didn't know, because you didn't bother testing, is seriously not what you want.