How can I decide what to test manually, and what to trust to automated tests?

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Published on 2010-04-14T16:44:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 16:53 UTC
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We have a ton of developers and only a few QA folks. The developers have been getting more involved in qa throughout the development process by writing automated tests, but our QA practices are mostly manual.

What I'd love is if our development practices were BDD and TDD and we grew a robust test suite. The question is: While building such a testing suite, how can we decide what we can trust to the tests, and what we should continue testing manually?

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