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I am talking specifically about automated tests.

> automated unit/integrations tests

Since that's what the blog is talking about. Formalized manual testing is a different topic, that also didn't universally exist in the 70's and 80's.

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Yes, but your comment gave the impression that you could create quality software without testing. No one is going to interpret your comment as a call for replacing automated tests with manual tests, but many might read it as “testing in itself isn’t very important.”

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