> extremely hard to write to the point of impracticality, and useless > Most orgs settle for the latter and end up testing easily testable things like the final

> extremely hard to write to the point of impracticality, and useless > Most orgs settle for the latter and end up testing easily testable things like the final rendered dom and rely on human qa for all the hard bits like "does the page actually look like it's supposed to Not disagreeing with you here, but what ends up happening is the frontend works flawlessly in the browser/device being tested but has tons of bugs in the others. Best examples of this are most banking apps, corporate portals, etc. But honestly, you can get away with the frontend without writing tests. But the backend? That directly affects the security aspect of the software and cannot afford to skip important tests atleast.