I'm gonna say it: I'm really, really grateful to our QA people. Testing stuff over and over and over is not fun, but it's crucially important. There's so many things that can't be caught by automated tests. There's no replacement for a user manually interacting with your software.
@usul@gabrielesvelto It depends on the type of software — for low-level system stuff automation itself might be a lot of fun. For web things it probably isn't.