> I believe, and you'll call me crazy, but the indicator for this second trend will be a focus on automated testing (not just unit testing)... I get that for m

> I believe, and you'll call me crazy, but the indicator for this second trend will be a focus on automated testing (not just unit testing)... I get that for most companies that are developing software it is to support some other profit center and not their primary focus. They hire subpar engineers because that's all they really need (and they're not compitent enough to tell the difference), so a lack of automation in this context, especially test automation, is not surprising to me in the least. But the idea that you would have a software based profit center that isn't automatically tested, especially with the competitive nature of the web requiring rapid turn around on features, absolutely blows my mind. Are people firing from the hip and hoping nothing breaks or clicking every link on your site? In which case you're either way too overconfident in your own abilities or have no value for your own time.