"Bad Spin! Don’t Ignore Your Automation Ecosystem"
summary
Organization ignores strategy, audience, environment and chooses BDD + open source by fiat; teams resist, developers refuse to make code automatable, and test environments are inconsistent. Result: BDD fails to scale across scrum teams, no feature-level automation is delivered, and only a small internal automation-assist app is built that does cut tester effort for releases but leaves most regression work manual. Recommendation is to prototype against real app pain points, evaluate vendor trials, and align tools to business goals before wide rollout.
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