How would **you** start getting developers to automate tests?

Ideas

• Set standards for how to work including ownership and routing of work
• Talk to the team to understand their thoughts on automated testing
• Investigate, by talking to the team, what is stopping them from doing it right now
• Find relevant stakeholders to drive the change
• RCA to work out the cause of issues/bugs. Align perceptions of the impact of those bugs.
• Work to address any mindset that testers are simply machines to relieve work from devs.
• Create a checklist for merging changes
• Work with developers to help them understand the end product. Sometimes they are hampered by lack of understanding what the product actually does.
• Address any skills gap in writing tests
• Experiment with one team first. Get them to be evangelists. They should have a positive story to tell.
• Use a workshop focussed on writing some tests and have a retro to understand what the real issues are
• Create an Enabling Team (Team Topologies lingo) of trainers. The trainers must come from previous success and have gravitas
• Invest in ensuring that the automation creates robust, fast feedback. Convert from slow feedback loops to fast feedback loops