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    if your QA department consists of people with no programming knowledge, it won't make sense to give them the task to write automated tests So if your QA department is composed of people who have no right to consider themselves a true QA department? How could you claim to do QA and not do automated testing? Commented Oct 20, 2014 at 14:02
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    @maple_shaft: that's just your opinion of what a "true QA" department should be. Others may think that it is more important that the QA people creates the right tests and checklists, not that they can automate all of those tests by themselves. As I wrote, this is up to specific organization. Commented Oct 20, 2014 at 16:18
  • @maple_shaft: ... and in some organizations, the QA department's responsibility is specificially for the tests which are not easy to automate. Commented Oct 20, 2014 at 16:26
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    @maple_shaft it happens (infrequently in my experience) that manual testing is much more efficient than automated. Once upon a time I was in such a manual QA team and I saw how it reliably outperformed more effort consuming attempts at automation Commented Oct 21, 2014 at 13:34