Some of it comes down to incentives/culture. If QA gets yelled at when bugs go out, they're going to take a conservative approach. It's funny, though, to hear

Some of it comes down to incentives/culture. If QA gets yelled at when bugs go out, they're going to take a conservative approach. It's funny, though, to hear you "hope" you start getting better automated test coverage. :) It happens pretty often that QA is the sole owner of automated tests, which has its own set of potentially bad incentives.