In the Agile world, and increasingly, in software development in general, automated testing is a key ingredient in delivering quality software. It's one of the many reasons why Agile has become so successful and is a component to any long-term, sustainable effort. Automated testing blurs the lines between the QA and the Dev. Both parties need to work together to produce a solid piece of software.If your code has been developed in a "non-Agile" way, meaning code that is not easily testable, we need to work on paying back that technical debt. (Technical debt is anything in your code that wasn’t done cleanly. You know it’s there, and eventually you’ll have to pay it back. Unfortunately the interest rates are usually obscene!) There are many ideas on ways to do this, including Defect Driven Testing (find a bug, write a test).Today I don’t want to discuss writing testable code for new features, but rather how to deal with our current technical debt. How do we move our code (and developers!) from a manual testing process to a more automated testing mindset?Read more: Matthew Bussa's Blog