Who owns automated acceptance tests?

As software testing spreads out in scope from the old notion of manual exercising of a system into areas such as developer unit tests and automated acceptance tests, the issue of ownership becomes more important. In this short and pithy post Kristan Vingrys states his opinion.

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Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems

A fascinating counterpoint to Gojko Adzic’s writings on acceptance testing in an agile process.

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Update: here’s some more discussion on this topic, and how it is affected by the nature of user stories

User Stories are Just Schedulable Change