The Story of Implementing Automated Tests: Despite and Against

Storytelling about how autotests were born and died in one product. What problems they solved and how their concept changed. About successes and mistakes.  About how we wrote a lot of code, and then rewrote it twice. We set up a database for data and didn't think through the architecture. About how we tinkered with the pipeline and still overcomplicated it. In general, about what many of you have encountered and, perhaps, may still encounter.