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One thing I forgot to mention in my last post: the reason why my boss was so concerned about integration testing was because of customer feedback. Which is a perfect example of why customer representatives should be involved in writing tests (instead of, say, just handing off requirements and leaving it up to the engineering team to provide the tests): if we use the analysis from that post, then customer representatives have insights into how it’s important for a test to be realistic that the engineering team doesn’t have. And, of course, the engineering team has its own insights into that as well (combined with an improved ability to make tests precise, fast, and easy to write), so they need to be involved, too.