> What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the appli

> What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the application I wouldn't really call this manual QA then. I'm describing the thousands of orgs whose QA processes are limited to "These people will run these five thousand test cases by hand for every release", and/or "These people will be handed a ticket and manually click all the buttons before marking it done"