Do you do any verification on how test focused they are? IME automated testing is like agile, the companies that talk the most are awful at the execution. I'd

Do you do any verification on how test focused they are? IME automated testing is like agile, the companies that talk the most are awful at the execution. I'd completely believe that the automated testing companies were slower and more expensive, but I'd be inclined to blame the quality of the tests themselves. I've seen so many code bases where the tests slow down development and rarely catch errors, where you'll often have to spend more time decoding what the tests were supposed to be testing than the actual development. Even otherwise good developers can see testing as a necessary compliance item and will write awful tests just to get coverage up. In your dataset are there any standout companies with low incident reports which do/don't have automated tests?