If no one cares, no consultant will be hired or respected. The team is saying that this is not a critical item for them.<p>If I may suggest,<p>1. Do all the tests need to be fixed? (i.e. how valuable are those particular tests?)<p>2. Can some of the broken tests be turned off?<p>3. Seek to understand the priorities of the others and understand how to make tests more relevant to them.<p>4. Seek to understand which tests deliver the most critical value.<p>For example,<p>1. &quot;Mark&quot; complains about working late on reproducing a bug. Can you help him create a test case that reproduces his bug reliably so that he can test a fix faster?<p>2. &quot;Jessie&quot; complains that tests are hard to maintain and she has too many other things to worry about fixing tests. Ask &quot;Jessie&quot; to help make ONE test easier to maintain.<p>3. &quot;Jane&quot; complains that the tests just test trivial functions and if they break the tests are broken, not the actual code. Turn off trivial tests.<p>4. &quot;John&quot; complains that &quot;all&quot; the tests are &quot;always&quot; broken. Turn off the broken tests so that people get used to seeing &quot;green&quot; so that &quot;not-green&quot; becomes unusual.<p>5. The CEO wants features fast. Work on understanding <i>how to communicate</i> the idea of consistent forward code velocity. You have to use their language to communicate to them. If the CEO is worried about a funding target in the next 2 months, it is difficult for them to care about something that only delivers value in 3 months. (I like testing and I would not care myself about tests in this case)<p>A failure to communicate != Stupid.<p>A failure to communicate == not understanding the other party&#x27;s priorities.<p>A failure to communicate == not understanding the other party&#x27;s <i>language</i>.<p>--------------------------<p>Lastly, tests only fit in well if there is a DEVELOPMENT PROCESS that values testing. Does the company have any process? (ie. Scrum, Agile, Kanban?)<p>If the company has no process, then any talk about tests is the wrong conversation.