What I wish I knew when I became CTO
&gt; I’ve found it a real struggle to get our team to adopt writing tests.<p>I find this hard to believe. Do others CTOs &#x2F; team leads find this to be the case?<p>I&#x27;ve been a CTO of two small startups with 3-7 developers. We&#x27;ve had resistance to tests at some points (myself included). We&#x27;ve solved it fairly simply. All pull requests (PRs) require tests. PRs are rejected immediately without tests. If a PR doesn&#x27;t have tests and it is critical to get in, we open a new ticket to track adding tests. It isn&#x27;t fool proof, but it does result in a high degree of test coverage.<p>And once developers understand how and where to write tests, they usually see the benefit quickly and want to write more tests.