Companies often know they should be writing automated tests but “don’t have the time”. As a result, they may pay an outside agency to write their automated tests for them or assign it to a QA team. This situation is far from ideal: Developers should be writing the automated tests for their code. An outside agency or QA team can be used to write more functional, higher level tests as a safety net to that. I really believe this is the only correct way to do it. But, if you insist on having an outside agency or QA do it, here are some important dos and don’ts:
