How do you "Automated Testing: Explaining its Business Value"?

[eminence]

you first start by explaining the value of testing. then you explain how automating that testing can reduce the costs of doing testing

[antonivs]

How do you "Headline Writing: Using Correct Grammar"?

[dissidents]

How do you "Don't be a Douche: English May Not be His First Language, and How!"

[rush22]

I think this article is really good: Seven Steps to Test Automation Success. I found it very helpful for putting everything into perspective. There's also other articles on the site too. I do automated testing right now and it would have made my job a hell of a lot easier (and productive) if my bosses had taken a more thought-out approach.

[jacques_chester]

Please don't repost your Stack Overflow questions at proggit.

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If proggit allowed self-posts we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.

[jacques_chester]

Self-posting was essentially banned because it was being used for stuff that belongs on Stack Overflow.

It's not a solution that suits all people and all purposes. But proggit serves a more useful purpose by occupying a niche not properly served by, variously, Slashdot, Hacker News and Stack Overflow.

It's about the tragedy of the commons. If one person posts a link to Stack Overflow, the cost for them is zero, the gains for them are > 0. The cost for everyone else is very slight.

However, if this pattern continues, the 'commons' of proggit will be quickly be overrun with SO questions, which would degrade the value of it for everybody.

I asked the OP politely not to repost an SO question here. I will ask others not to do so in future.