As much as I love automated testing, I have come to live with the fact that teams migrating from waterfall approaches to development to SCRUM often try to maintain the team structures they are familiar with.  At times, this typically means an engineering staff that sucks at writing tests, and a QA staff that is still very much attuned to the finer grained edge and corner cases.  Each of these parts of your team adds value to a SCRUM project.  Integrating them to avoid bottlenecks, stay lean, and deliver with quality is a clever trick.

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